#Vocabulary


🔘Spectre (BrE), Specter (AmE) /ˈspektə(r)/

🔸Noun

1) the spectre of something :
➖something that people are afraid of because it may affect them badly.

🔸The recession is again raising the spectre of unemployment.


2) [C] (literary) : a ghost

#collocations

bare essentials:
things that are needed the most
أبسط المقومات
example:
Poor families have just enough money for bare essentials like food and clothing.

🤍"رَبِّ أَوۡزِعۡنِيٓ أَنۡ أَشۡكُرَ نِعۡمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِيٓ أَنۡعَمۡتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَيَّ وَأَنۡ أَعۡمَلَ صَٰلِحٗا تَرۡضَىٰهُ وَأَصۡلِحۡ لِي فِي ذُرِّيَّتِيٓۖ إِنِّي تُبۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ وَإِنِّي مِنَ ٱلۡمُسۡلِمِينَ "🤍



🤍"My Lord! Inspire me to always be thankful for Your favours which You blessed me and my parents with, and to do good deeds that please You. And instil righteousness in my offspring. I truly repent to You, and I truly submit to Your Will''🤍

[Sūrah al-ʾAḥqāf, Verse 15]

#Vocabulary
#phrases


🔘Gird

[ Gird (Girded/ Girt) ]

▪️[I,T] if you gird for something, or gird yourself for something, especially something difficult, you prepare for it


➖gird (yourself) for something.

▪️By midsummer both police and protesters were girding for confrontation.



🔘Gird (up) your loins : to get ready to do something difficult – used humorously.