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1.
If you are ~, you are fairly confident that something that you want to happen will happen.
I am ~ this misunderstanding will be rectified very quickly...
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‘Am I welcome?’ He smiled ~ly, leaning on the door.
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2.
If something such as a sign or event is ~, it makes you feel that what you want to happen will happen.
The result of the election in is yet another ~ sign that peace could come to the Middle East.
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3.
A ~ action is one that you do in the hope that you will get what you want to get.
We’ve chartered the aircraft in the ~ anticipation that the government will allow them to leave.
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4.
If you refer to someone as a ~, you mean that they are hoping and trying to achieve success in a particular career, election, or competition.
His soccer skills continue to be put to good use in his job as football coach to young ~s.
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