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Lesson = (n.) lecture, teaching

Lessen = (v.) decrease, reduce 📉

He begged 🙏 Mr. Dunne 👨‍🏫 to LESSEN the number of idioms in his LESSONS.

#Vocabulary
USAGE: Indoor, indoors

📗Indoor is an adjective and indoors is an adverb.

🔹Examples:

🔹Indoor sports. 👉✔️

🔹Indoors sports. 👉✖️

🔹I stayed indoors. 👉✔️

🔹I stayed indoor. 👉✖️

#Grammar
✳️A PART = one part

Hard work 💪💦 is *a part* of success. 🏆🏋

✳️APART = away from each other; separately

It’s hard 😭 to be *apart* from you. 💔

#Vocabulary
The plural of “antenna” is *antennas* for phones📱, radios 📻, and TVs.

It’s *antennae* for the sensors on insects’ 🐜 and lobsters’ heads.

#Vocabulary
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✳️Diffuse [dih-FYOOS] = to spread out

✳️Defuse [dee-FYOOZ] = to disarm a bomb 💣; to reduce tension

#Vocabulary
“Paper tiger” = one who looks and acts tough but is actually weak 🗞🐯

Most bullies are just *paper tigers*: they’re mean but weak.

#idiomatic_expressions
CAN’T hardly → .

CAN’T barely → .

CAN’T scarcely → .

They’re double 🙅🙅 negatives.

CAN hardly → .

CAN barely → .

CAN scarcely → .

#Grammar
1. evoke 2. invoke 3. revoke 4. provoke 5. convoke 6. equivoque, equivoke

#Vocabulary
Six years worth →

Six years’ worth →

Six weeks worth →

Six weeks’ worth →

The job requires *45 years’ worth* of experience. 😧

#Grammar