✳️FOREgo = go beFORE

✳️Forgo = go without; refrain from

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✅Judicious = wise; prudent: Spend money 💸 judiciously.

✅Judicial = relating to court or justice: The ruling was political, not judicial. ‍⚖️

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🔴"1.8K" or "2K" what do these k's stand for?

👉Think of kilometre, kilogram and kilobyte. The kilo prefix comes from the Greek meaning a thousand. In computing a kilobyte is really 1024 bytes but it is taken to be a thousand.

written abbreviation for ONE THOUSAND. 1k= 1000

When you’re having a conversation with friends, you are *conversing* (not “conversating”) with them.

“Converse” = ✓

“Conversate” = X

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🌹By All Means: Yes Certainly, Definitely.

🌹By Any Means: To achieve a goal in any possible way, no matter how.

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✳️ Wrote = past tense of “write” ✍️

✳️ Rote = memorization by repetition

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I wrote “definitely” 620 times and learned its spelling by rote.

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The past tense of “speed” is SPED or SPEEDED.👍

Laboratory = room for scientific experiments 🔬

Lavatory = bathroom 🚻

Tell your kid to pee in the *lavatory*, not my *laboratory*! 😡💢

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💁 FACT:

Stupid → stupider → stupidest.

Clever → cleverer → cleverest.

(Don’t be too surprised.) 😮

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In formal writing,

*anyway* → ✔️

“anyways” → ❌

Why are you guys so mad, *anyway*? 😠💢

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💁 The past tense of “pet” is *petted*, not “pet”:

In a humorous twist, the dog *petted* the boy.

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“Data” 📈 is technically the plural of “datum,” but “data” is now used as a singular or plural noun.

So,

The data IS → ✔

The data ARE → ✔

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SIGHT = vision. 👀 👓

SITE = location; website.

CITE = quote; refer to.

Use your *sight* to *cite* the *site* where you found your data.

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