🖌 - 'Morale' (noun) means the general attitude usually of a group of people.
🖋 - 'Moral' (noun) means the lesson learned from a story or a situation.

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▶️ - outgoing (adj.) - openly friendly and responsive : extroverted
~ His outgoing personality made him popular at school.

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😁😎
✳️ - outgoing (adj.) - directed to an intended recipient; addressed and ready for posting:
~ outgoing mail
✴️ - incoming (adj.) - newly arrived or received:
~ incoming mail

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🖌🖍🖋 Punctuating Dialogue
- dialogue tags, actions, and/or thoughts ➡️ go outside of the quotation marks

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✒️✏️📝 Punctuation - quotations within quotations - double and single quotation marks

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✳️ an ordinary/average/regular Joe
= an ordinary man

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✂️ - be a cut above sy/sg = to be much better than someone or something else
~ a cut above the rest
~ a cut above average
~ This is a cut above the average Hollywood thriller.

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💰 - avarice (noun) /ˈævərɪs/ - formal 💵💶💷
= insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

- avaricious (adj.) /ˌævəˈrɪʃəs/

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👩‍💻 pull/tear your hair out 🙅🙅‍♂️
= to feel very worried or very annoyed about something
~ When they still weren't home by midnight, I was pulling my hair out.

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▶️ Passive voice 2/1

✳️ Present/Future Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + BE + past participle
✴️ Past Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + HAVE BEEN + past participle

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▶️ Passive voice 2/2

✳️ Present/Future Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + BE + past participle
✴️ Past Modals —> The passive form ➡️ modal + HAVE BEEN + past participle

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🔘 fat chance = slim chance

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🔘 fat chance = slim chance

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🔘 fat chance = slim chance

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🔘 fat chance = slim chance

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⚪️ - blind someone with 📈📉📊
⚫️ - blind someone with science/technology 📡🌡🔬

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✳️ vocation (noun) /vəʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
✴️ avocation (noun) /ˌavəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/
~ Mason regarded teaching as his vocation.
~ He's a professional musician, but his avocation is photography.

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▶️ Verbs Followed by Gerunds OR Infinitives

✳️ can't bear + gerund OR to-infinitive ✅☑️
✴️ can't stand + gerund OR to-infinitive ✅☑️

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- the boondocks (noun) [plural] /ˈbuːndɒks/
- the boonies (noun) [plural] /ˈbuːniz/

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- druthers (noun) [plural ] [ˈdrʌðərz] - informal
- one's druthers
- if one had one's druthers / given one's druthers
['druther' - alteration of 'would rather']

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