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practitioner
Noun
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A practitioner is a person who works in a profession or following a particular style or belief, especially related to health care.
Acupuncture practitioners use fine needles to stimulate specific points of the body.
The book should be useful for new and experienced practitioners of yoga.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
black
Noun
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The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night.
He stood alone in the black of the night.
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Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin.
There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians.
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If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red)
It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black.
black
Adjective
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colored black
The black dog was the color of night.
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If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin.
It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager.
About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black.
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About a race with dark-coloured skin.
More and more universities are offering courses in black history.
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Black coffee or tea has no milk in it.
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If something is black, it is very bad.
The day the war started was a black day in history.
black
Verb
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If you black something, you color it black.
He blacked his boots before the party.
They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside.
A number of lines in the report were blacked out.
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If you black out, you stop seeing and hearing everything around you and you fall down.
After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up.
magic
Noun
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Magic has to do with making things happen in ways that are not physical, and might be called supernatural.
The fairy god mother used magic to turn mice into horses.
The Order of the Golden Dawn claimed to practice Christian magic.
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A kind of entertainment that uses tricks to make it look like impossible things have happened.
He pulled rabbit out of a hat at the magic show, then he cut someone in half and put them back together alive. (He didn't do these things, but made it look like he did; the speaker knows that.)
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Anything wonderful, beautiful, or very special.
Love is the greatest magic of all.
Imagination is part of the magic of childhood.