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

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

#Vocabulary

✳️Diffuse [dih-FYOOS] = to spread out

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

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“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

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Six years worth → ❌

Six years’ worth → ✔

Six weeks worth → ❌

Six weeks’ worth → ✔

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

#Grammar

إنجليزي متوسط + متقدم + خبير

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“Each” is singular, so

each others’ → ❌

each other’s → ✔️

Staring into *each other’s* eyes 👀, we ate *each other’s* fries. 🍟

#Grammar

👨‍💻💬 The h in “hospital” is pronounced, so

an hospital → ❌

a hospital → ✔️

👩‍💻💬 In “hour,” the “h” is silent, so

a hour → ❌

an hour → ✔️

Afterward = later, subsequently

Afterword = concluding section at the end of a book 📘

💁 They’re similar to “forward” and “foreword.”

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