escort
e‧scort1 /ɪˈskɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ ●○○ verb [transitive]
- to take someone somewhere, especially when you are protecting or guarding them
- The shipment was escorted by guards
- Two Marines escorted Benny inside
- I escorted her to the door.
innate
in‧nate /ˌɪˈneɪt◂/ ●○○ adjective
- an innate quality or ability is something you born with.
- Children have an innate ability to learn language
- an innate belief is something you feel strongly about are unlikely to change
- the innate conservatism of the farming community
–innately adverb
- the army’s innately conservative values
Examples from the corpus
Children have an innate curiosity about the physical world.
monstrosity
mon‧stros‧i‧ty /mɒnˈstrɒsəti $ mɑːnˈstrɑː-/ noun (plural monstrosities)
[countable]
a concrete monstrosity
Examples from the Corpus
This building is another monstrosity celebrated as a brilliant piece of
architecture.
parchment
parch‧ment /ˈpɑːtʃmənt $ ˈpɑːr-/ noun
- [uncountable] a material used in the past for writing on, made from the skin
of a sheep or goat
- [uncountable] thick yellow-white writing paper, sometimes used for official documents
- [countable] document written on parchment
Examples from the Corpus
- So we put together a parchment scroll of information on various last names-we
did it for about a dozen names.
platoon
pla‧toon /pləˈtuːn/ noun [countable]
a small group of soldiers which is part of a company and is led by a lieutenant
Examples from the Corpus
To the left Charlie could see another platoon ahead of him
Reference
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English