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cheery
a
happy or making you feel happy: 
She gave me a cheery 
smile.
cheerio
interj a colloquial word used as farewell: 
Cheerio, old 
friends!
cheers
1) is used as a toast “Your health!”.
 Does everybody have 
beer? Yes, cheers. 
2) a modern informal use of cheers in British English 
is to mean “good-bye” or “thank you”:
 I’ll give you a hand tomorrow. 
Cheers, that’ll be great. 
3) Goodbye.
4. 
contest
vt 
1) to argue; debate, dispute, as to contest a statement 
(a point); to try to show that it is wrong, as to contest smb’s right to 
do smth; 2) to take part in a struggle or competition (with or against 
smb or smth), as to contest a match (a race): 
Jim had to contest against 

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the world’s best winners in the Games and did well to come third.
3) to 
fight or compete for, to try to win, as to contest a seat in Parliament: 
The soldiers contested every inch of the ground.
Syn
. contend
contest
n
struggle, fight; competition, as a keen contest for the prize; 
a contest of skill; a musical contest; a close contest: 
The ice-hockey cham-
pionship was a close contest between Canada, Sweden and Russia.
contestant
n
one who contests
Syn
. contender
contestable
a
open to argument: 
That’s a contestable statement, 
you can’t prove it.
5. 
emerge
vi
1) to come forth into view from an enclosed and ob-
scure place: 
The moon emerges from beyond the clouds.
2) to rise into 
notice and esp. to issue (come forfh) from suffering, subjection, dan-
ger, embarrassment, etc.: 
New artistic developments emerged after the 
revolution.
3) to come out as the result of investigation, discussion (of 
a fact, a principle): 
At last there emerged Einstein’s Theory of Rela-
tivity.
emergency
 n
a sudden happening requiring prompt action; one to 
be used in an emergency, as an emergency exit (door); an emergency 
fund; an emergency (forced) landing: 
These stairs are to be used only 
in an emergency. The plane was caught in a snow-storm and had to make 
an emergency landing.
emergence
 n
the process of appearing: 
The emergence of English 
as the medium of international communication.
6. 
hint
 n
slight or indirect indication or suggestion:
 She gave him 
a hint that she would like him to leave. I know how to take a hint. “Hints 
for housewives” 
(as the title of an article giving suggestions that will 
help housewives)