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Ten Commandments

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A particular list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible or the Hebrew Bible, were twice given or dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and inscribed on two stone tablets.
  2. The ten fingernails, used by women when fighting.
    dated, slang

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Examples

“A federal judge⟳ has temporarily blocked a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by the new year.”
“She'd drink⟳ the gin fust and give⟳ him her ten commandments artervards, when she'd aggerawated him to try⟳ it on.”
“[…] once or twice, when he cut⟳ up bad, she appeared to him, and scratched his face⟳ with her ten commandments […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

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