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FACT: We can use “whose” with people,animals AND objects:
I know a man whose dad is tall. → ✔️
He has a car whose door is missing. → ✔️
CONFIDENT = optimistic ; self-assured.
CONFIDANT = person you trust with your secrets.
I am confident in you as my confidant.
Here are some synonyms for “evil”: 😈
• nefarious
• fiendish
• malevolent
• depraved
• diabolic
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➡️ Burro = donkey 🐴
➡️ Burrow = (v.) dig a hole; (n.) hole.
➡️ Borrow = to receive and use something that belongs to someone else
➡️ Borough = town or district.
➡️ Bureau [BYOO-roh] = dresser; agency, department.
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🌕🌕 - be like two peas in a pod
#idiomatic_expressions
🙂🌹
- each other's ✔️
- each others' ❌
#Grammar
✴️ - converge (verb) /kənˈvɜː(r)dʒ/ = to come from different directions to reach the same point
✳️ - diverge (verb) /daɪˈvɜː(r)dʒ/ = to start to go in separate directions
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🖋 - feel like + verb + ing — feel like doing sg
🖍 - don't feel like doing sg
🖌 - feel like sg
#Grammar
👓 - fill one's boots 👢👢☠️
🕶 - blow/knock one's socks off
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⚪️ - unmistakable (adj.) /ˌʌnmɪˈsteɪkəb(ə)l/
also: - unmistakeable
= not capable of being mistaken or misunderstood : clear; impossible to mistake for anything else
#Vocabulary
⚪️ - unmistakable (adj.) /ˌʌnmɪˈsteɪkəb(ə)l/
also: - unmistakeable
= not capable of being mistaken or misunderstood : clear; impossible to mistake for anything else
#Vocabulary
EXHAUSTING = tiring.
Cycling 240 km is exhausting.
EXHAUSTIVE = complete, full, thorough.
Make an exhaustive search for clues!
🔵ERE [air] = before (in time): I will return ERE nightfall.🌛
🔵ERR [er] = make a mistake.
🔵EAR = 👂
🔵HEIR [air] = inheritor; successor.
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Sit on the fence = avoid making a choice or decision
Ali is *sitting on the fence* about what to eat for lunch.
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⚪️ - byproduct (noun) /ˈbaɪˌprɑdʌkt/
◻️ - by-product (noun)
#Vocabulary
🌕🌕 - be like two peas in a pod
#idiomatic_expressions
✴️ - converge (verb) /kənˈvɜː(r)dʒ/ = to come from different directions to reach the same point
✳️ - diverge (verb) /daɪˈvɜː(r)dʒ/ = to start to go in separate directions
#Vocabulary
💡💡💡
- Some words ending in -ENT are changed to nouns by using the ending -ENCY
🖋 - feel like + verb + ing — feel like doing sg
🖍 - don't feel like doing sg
🖌 - feel like sg
#Grammar
🖋 - feel like + verb + ing — feel like doing sg
🖍 - don't feel like doing sg
🖌 - feel like sg
#Grammar
👓 - fill one's boots 👢👢
#idiomatic_expressions
⚪️ - unmistakable (adj.)
⚫️ - unmistakably (adv.)
#Vocabulary
⚪️ - unmistakable (adj.) /ˌʌnmɪˈsteɪkəb(ə)l/
also: - unmistakeable
= not capable of being mistaken or misunderstood : clear; impossible to mistake for anything else
#Vocabulary