💠 - quixotic (adj.) /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ - mainly literary

~ a vast and perhaps quixotic project
~ a quixotic scheme to end the violence

origin: from Don Quixote + -ic

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✳️ homophones ✳️

▶️ homophones: - pause ⏸ - paws 🐾

➡️ pause /pɔːz/ ⬅️ paws
➡️ paw /pɔː/

🖌 antithesis (noun) /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ - formal
plural ➡️ antitheses /-siːz/
~ He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.

🖋 antithetical (adj.) /ˌæntɪˈθetɪk(ə)l/
~ antithetical views

✴️ - be (right) up one's alley = be (right) down one's alley (AmE)

✳️ - be right up one's street (BrE)

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✳️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

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✴️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

- If you bite it and you die, it is poisonous. And if it bites you (you are bitten) and you die, it’s venomous.

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🌀 - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 🐉 🌱

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💰 - pay one's dues 💰

~ She paid her dues playing in small clubs in New York before an album made her famous.

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💰 - pay one's dues 💰😁😎

▶️ - disseminate (verb) /dɪˈsemɪneɪt/ - formal 💡📚📖

= to spread or give out something, especially news, information, ideas, etc., to a lot of people:

~ One of the organization's aims is to disseminate information about the disease.
~ The purpose of a university press is to disseminate knowledge by publishing books and journals.
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▶️ - dissemination (noun) /dɪˌseməˈneɪʃən/

~ the rapid dissemination of new technology
~ the dissemination of information

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▶️ - disseminate (verb)

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🖌 Verbs Followed by Gerunds OR Infinitives
➡️ can't bear - He [can't bear being] / [can't bear to be] alone.
➡️ can't stand - Nancy [can't stand working] / [can't stand to work] the late shift.

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- If 'LIKE' is in the NEGATIVE, a GERUND refers to an action that we DO but don't enjoy doing,
while a TO-INFINITIVE means that we DON'T DO something because we don't think it right to do.
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📚📖🖌 Soliloquy vs Monologue

- soliloquy (noun) /səˈlɪləkwi/ (plural soliloquies)
- soliloquize (verb) /-kwaɪz/
- monologue (noun) /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/ (also US monolog) (plural monologues also US monologs)

📚📖🖌 Soliloquy vs Monologue

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🐻🐼🐨 envelop (verb) vs envelope (noun) ✉️

- envelop (verb) /ɪnˈveləp/
- envelope (noun) /ˈenvələʊp/

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📖 - on paper / look good on paper = in theory 📝

~ I think your plan only works on paper.
~ This automotive design looks really good on paper.

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🖌🖍🖋 Commonly confused words 🛠💡🔍

💠 The four main kinds of conditionals 💠 ☕️

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- moral (noun, adj.) /ˈmɒrəl/
- morale (noun) /məˈrɑːl/

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