The Shorty Awards are also known as the Shorty.

It is an annual show which honours the best influencers, brands and organizations that produce and publish short-form content on social media such as Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others.

Each individual award recognizes the entire work, rather than an individual piece of the content creator.

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shorty (plural shorties): BrE one (usually a person) that is short, AmE a person’s girlfriend.

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More and more Hollywood movies are using gratuitous profanity these days.

Swearing has become almost an indispensable part of the silver screen in America.

Is this done to add oomph to the films?

Or it just reflects how ordinary Americans conduct their everyday conversation.

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profanity: obscene language.
oomph: dynamism, energy, vigor.

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A poetry slam is a competition arts event with the goal to move poetry from academia to a popular audience.

Poet Marc Smith is credited with starting the poetry slam in Chicago in 1984.

Urban culture has a strong influence on poets who can compete as individuals or in teams.

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to slam: to shut forcibly,  to criticize harshly.

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Pinocchio is a fictional character, the puppet carved out of a piece of wood by the old wood-carver Geppetto.

He acts as a human child and often gets in trouble.

His nose gets longer when he lies. And it resumes its normal size when he tells the truth.

The Good Fairy finally fulfills his dream of becoming a real boy and he takes care of his old father Geppetto.

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puppet: marionette.

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Work has always offended him.

So to prevent a potential conflict with it he rather keeps on avoiding it.

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to offend: to make upset or angry. 

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Last night burglars broke into my house.
They were looking for my money.
I got up and joined them in their search.

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burglar: a person who illegally enters a house or building in order to steal. 

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The most beloved children’s toy has been with us for over a century: the teddy bear.

”Teddy” was the nickname of a president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

According to reports at the time, Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear while on a hunting trip.

Teddy bears have been in homes around the world for several generations.

More than 100 years later, they are still appreciated by children (and often adults too).

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beloved: well liked, popular.

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If you want to tune in to recent news reports from Tokyo, follow your favorite hockey team in Prague or listen to the latest Brazilian music, you can now do so with only a couple of clicks of your mouse or presses on your smartphone screen.

TuneIn has more than 70,000 radio stations and more than 2 million on-demand programs that you can listen to at any time.

The stations and programs come from almost all the countries of the world.

You can hear TuneIn on the Web, on tablets and on smartphones, among other devices.

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fingertip: the end of a finger. 

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