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11 July 2025 13:48

❗️ Insert 2️⃣ missing commas:

4️⃣ "Please remain seated⭕️with your seatbelts securely fastened⭕️" instructed the pilot."If you're using an electronic⭕️device⭕️turn it off⭕️as we begin our descent."

✅ Answer: "Please remain seated❌with your seatbelts securely fastened,✔️" instructed the pilot."If you're using an electronic❌device,✔️turn it off❌as we begin our descent."

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11 July 2025 13:47

❗️ Insert 3️⃣ missing commas:

3️⃣ While volcanoes⭕️and mountains may seem similar⭕️they are quite different. Unlike mountains⭕️volcanoes contain⭕️magma⭕️a crater, and lava.

✅ Answer: While volcanoes❌and mountains may seem similar,✔️they are quite different. Unlike mountains,✔️volcanoes contain❌magma,✔️a crater, and lava.

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11 July 2025 13:47

➰ Commas (writing) ➰

Benefits➕:
➿ Improve your understanding of how to use commas correctly ;
✍️ Write more clearly and effectively .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS:
Determine the place where comma is missing.
Madam Secretary [ , ] ✔️ I politely disagree...

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10 July 2025 16:54

4️⃣ He's vacillating back and forth about attending the concert.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of noise ... > .
TIP: Vacillating means "wavering between options", so back and forth is unnecessary.

☑️ He's vacillating back and forth about attending the concert.

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10 July 2025 16:54

2️⃣ She planned to get currency at an ATM machine in the airport.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... machine ... > .
TIP: ATM stands for "automated teller machine", so the word machine is unnecessary.

☑️ She planned to get currency at an ATM machine in the airport.

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10 July 2025 16:53

💠 Brevity (writing) 💠

Benefits➕:
💬 Learn to express yourself clearly and concisely ;
💠 Avoid redundancies in your writing ;
👁 Keep your reader's attention by writing more directly .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentence and remove an unnecessary word(-s) to make the sentence more concise. All or part of the selection can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.

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05 May 2025 18:14

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

📌 Subjects:

⭕️ CAWDOR —

⭕️ EDINBURGH —

⭕️ STIRLING —

☑️ Facts:
Castle Rock ;
Castle Hill ;
17th century ;
St. Margaret's Chapel ;
largest banquet hall ;
Macbeth ;
Green Lady ;
ghost in blue dress ;
nine skeletons ;
Napoleonic wars ;
Green Lady ;

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04 May 2025 14:47

7️⃣

✅ HARD: Curlers' arenas.
✅ MEDIUM: Places for hockey players to train.
✅ EASY: Skaters' arenas.

✔️ RINKS

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04 May 2025 14:47

6️⃣

✅ HARD: Brings home, in a way.
✅ MEDIUM: Deserves.
✅ EASY: Anagram of nears (hint: merits).

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04 May 2025 14:47

4️⃣

✅ HARD: Capital on Santiago Island.
✅ MEDIUM: Capital off the coast of Africa.
✅ EASY: Capital of Cape Verde.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Catchy song, conversationally.
✅ EASY & MEDIUM: A rhyme of cop (hint: catchy song).

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04 May 2025 14:12

✍️ Word of the Day — mendicant 📎

Etymology
From the Latin mendicare, meaning to beg or ask for charity. The word shares a root with the Latin mendicus, meaning beggar.

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04 May 2025 13:46

9️⃣ NOUN: quality of goodwill or charitableness —

DEMO — VOL — ENCE
❌ ❌
BENE — TOX — OLOGY

✅ Answer: n benevolence .
BENE (good) + VOL (wish or will) + ENCE (action or quality of) = BENEVOLENCE — quality of goodwill or charitableness.

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04 May 2025 13:45

7️⃣ NOUN: imagined place that is extremely bad —

DYS — DICT — IA
❌ ❌
PRE — TOP — IC

✅ Answer: n dystopia .
DYS (not normal) + TOP (place) + IA (territory or world) = DYSTOPIA — imagined place that is extremely bad.

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04 May 2025 13:45

5️⃣ ADJECTIVE: using more words than needed —

VERB — ATE
❌
TEMPOR — OSE

✅ Answer: adj verbose
VERB (word) + OSE (full of or having) = VERBOSE — using more words than needed.

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11 July 2025 13:48

❗️ Insert 2️⃣ missing commas:

2️⃣ Born Araminta Ross⭕️Harriet Tubman led some 300 enslaved people to freedom⭕️via the Underground Railroad. Notably⭕️she even helped free her parents⭕️and siblings in 1860.

✅ Answer: Born Araminta Ross,✔️Harriet Tubman led some 300 enslaved people to freedom❌via the Underground Railroad. Notably,✔️she even helped free her parents❌and siblings in 1860.

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11 July 2025 13:47

❗️ Insert 1️⃣ missing comma:

1️⃣ The US Congress the Coinage Act in April⭕️1792⭕️establishing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the site of the country's national mint.

✅ Answer: The US Congress the Coinage Act in April❌1792,✔️establishing Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the site of the country's national mint.

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10 July 2025 16:54

5️⃣ We postponed our departure because the snow event caused roads to close.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word here is < ... event ... > .
TIP: Snow is already an event, so event is unnecessary.

☑️ We postponed our departure because the snow event caused roads to close.

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10 July 2025 16:54

3️⃣ The cacophony of noise coming from the train tracks forced riders to cover their ears.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of noise ... > .
TIP: A cacophony is "a harsh, noisy sound, so of noise is unnecessary.

☑️ The cacophony of noise coming from the train tracks forced riders to cover their ears.

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10 July 2025 16:53

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: remove unnecessary word or set of words.

1️⃣ The consensus of opinion favored holding a school fundraiser.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... of opinion ... > .
TIP: Consensus means "a generally accepted opinion", so of opinion is unnecessary.

☑️ The consensus of opinion favored holding a school fundraiser.

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05 May 2025 19:24

✍️ Word of the Day — raze 📎

Etymology
From the Old French raser, meaning to scrape or shave off. This is also the origin for Modern English's razor, a tool used for shaving.

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05 May 2025 18:14

🎧 Focus (listening)🎧

Benefits➕:
🎧 Improve your concentration while listening ;
🧠 Exercise your short-term memory ;
👂Become a more attentive listener .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the recording carefully and then match the facts with the correct subjects. Make sure you can hear the tone clearly.

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04 May 2025 14:47

5️⃣

✅ HARD: What some people might do to the fridge late at night.
✅ MEDIUM: Anagram of arid (hint: to invade).
✅ EASY: A rhyme of maid (hint: to invade).

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04 May 2025 14:47

4️⃣

✅ HARD: It really makes waves.
✅ MEDIUM: Hair treatment that was popular in the 80s.
✅ EASY: Treatment that makes hair curly.

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04 May 2025 14:47

1️⃣

✅ HARD: Livestock lodgings.
✅ MEDIUM: Farm shelters.
✅ EASY: Big red farm buildings.

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04 May 2025 14:47

✅ Train your brain: Enjoy a quick mini puzzle packed with learning opportunities!
🧠 Keep your brain active: Expand your vocabulary and discover trivia about language, science, and geography.
🔍 Backed by research: Solving crossword puzzles can improve your cognition, problem-solving, and memory skills.

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Solve the crossword.

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04 May 2025 13:46

1️⃣0️⃣ ADVERB: in the manner of one side acting alone —

UNI — LATER — AL — EE
❌ ❌ ❌
PAN — NUL — ABLE — LY

✅ Answer: n unilaterally .
UNI (one or singly) + LATER (side or wide) + AL (relating to) + LY (in the manner of) = UNILATERALLY — in the manner of one side acting alone.

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04 May 2025 13:46

8️⃣ NOUN: act of being disloyal —

SUB — FID — ANT
❌ ❌
PER — VEST — Y

✅ Answer: n perfidy .
PER (to ill effect) + FID (trust or faith) + Y (characterized by) = PERFIDY — act of being disloyal.

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04 May 2025 13:45

6️⃣ VERB: to state as the truth —

DERM — VER
❌
A — IC

✅ Answer: v aver
A (to or toward) + VER (truth) = AVER — to state as the truth.

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04 May 2025 13:45

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

4️⃣ NOUN: person who speaks many languages —

DUR — GLOT
❌
POLY — CENT

✅ Answer: n polyglot
POLY (many) + GLOT (language) = POLYGLOT — person who speaks many languages.