POPULACE = people living in an area: The general *populace* hated the film. 🎥👎

POPULOUS = having many people: Tokyo 🗼 is a *populous* city.

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ALLUSION = an indirect reference

ILLUSION = a deceptive appearance

ELUSION = an escape

🏃💨💨💨 👮🚓

DELUSION = a mistaken idea 👩💭❌

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Criminals are *hanged*.

Paintings 🎨 and clothes👗 are *hung*.

I hanged up. → ❌

I hung up.📱→ ✔️

We hanged out. → ❌

We hung out. 👫🍨 → ✔️

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“Barely no” is a double negative. So are “hardly no” and “scarcely no.”

Change “no” to *any*: There is *barely any* ice cream left. 🍨

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📌I'm used to killing snakes = I've killed a lot of snakes in my life.

📌I used to kill snakes = I killed snakes in the past, but not anymore.

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Disparate = different, varied 👴🐺🍕

Desperate = hopeless; needing 🙏

During exam season, students are *desperate* for *disparate* reasons. 😰

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Blight = plant disease 🌱☠

Bright = shining; full of light; intelligent 💡

The *bright* scientist developed a cure for the crop *blight*.

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“Advice” rhymes with “rice.” It’s a NOUN.
“Advise” rhymes with “rise.” It’s a VERB.

Ramzy ADVISES 👲💬 his clients 👫 by giving good ADVICE. 👍

(advice) also a noun and a verb in American English.

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Breath = (n.) air going in/out of lungs

Breathe = (v.) inhale + exhale

Breadth = (n.) width; range

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Noisome = having an offensive smell 💩👃

Fulsome = excessively flattering or praising 🙇👏

Winsome = charming 🎩✨

Cumbersome = burdensome

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The singular and plural of “species” is “species,” e.g., animal species 🐷🐸

Specie = money in coins

The laundromat accepts only *specie*.

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allay — alley — alloy — ally

The confusion could occur on account of the similarity of appearance, and of the near-similar pronunciation.

‘Allay’ is pronounced beginning with an ‘a’ sound as in “about” and end sound rhymes with the word “lay”

‘alley’ begins with an ‘a’ sound as in “angry” and the end sound rhymes with the word “Lee”; ‘

alloy’ begins with an ‘a’ sound as in “angry” and the middle sound with an ‘l’ and the end sound rhymes with “boy” — some what like ‘a l oi’

‘ally’ begins with an ‘a’ sound as in “about” or as in “angry” and the end sound rhymes with the word “lie”.

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