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breeze

1. N-COUNT A breeze is a gentle wind.
2. VERB If you breeze into a place or a position, you enter it in a very casual or relaxed manner.
3. If you breeze through something su as a game or test, you cope with it easily.
4. if you say that something is a breeze, you mean that it is very easy to do or to achieve.

instantaneous adj./adv.

1. ADJ-GRADED Something that is instantaneous happens immediately and very quickly.

astronaut n.

1. N-COUNT An astronaut is a person who is trained for traveling in a spacecraft.

Antarctica n.

1. The continent which is the most southern area of land on the Earth and is mostly covered with ice.

The Arctic

domineering adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED If you say that someone is domineering, you disapprove of them because you feel that they to control other people without any consideration for their feelings or opinions.

guarantee n./vt.

1. VERB If one thing guarantees another, the first is certain to cause the second thing to happen.
2. N-COUNT Something that is a guarantee of something else makes it certain that it will happen or that it is true.
3. VERB If you guarantee something, you peomise that it will definitely happen, or that you will do or provide it for someone.
4. A guarantee is a written promise by a company to replace or repair a product free of charge if it has any faults within a particular time.

beguile vt.

1. VERB If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
2. VERB If someone beguiles you into doing something, they trick you into doing it.

tenacious adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED If you are tenacious, you are very determined and do not give up easily.
2. ADJ-GRADED If you describe something such as an idea or belief as tenacious, you mean that it has a strong influence on people and is diffcult to change or remove.

illiterate adj./n.

1. ADJ Someone who is illiterate does not know how to read or write.
2. ADJ If you describe someone as musically, technologically, or economically illiterate, you mean that they do noy know about music, technology, or economics.

holocaust n.

1. N-vAR A holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war.
2. N-SING The Holocaust is used to refer to the killing by the Nazis of millions of Jews during the Second World War.

enigmatic adj.

1. ADJ-GRADED Someone or something that is enigmatic is mysterious and difficult to understand.