Diffuse [dih-FYOOS] = to spread out

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

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❇️ Fortnight 🇬🇧 = (n.) a period of two weeks

❇️ Fortnite = you know what this is 😂

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💁‍♀️ The past tense of “quit” is QUIT or QUITTED, but the past tense of acquit can only be ACQUITTED:

Thanks to DNA evidence, I was *acquitted* of murder. 🔪🔫

#Grammar

⚖️ - egalitarian (adj.) /ɪˌɡælɪˈteəriən/ - formal
⚖️ - egalitarianism (noun) /ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən.ɪ.zəm/

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⚖️ - egalitarian (adj.) /ɪˌɡælɪˈteəriən/ - formal
⚖️ - egalitarianism (noun) /ɪˌɡæl.ɪˈteə.ri.ən.ɪ.zəm/

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- Wax = to increase 📈

- Wane = to decrease 📉

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- "A change of plans" vs. "A change in plans"

- Change of plans = the entire plan has been changed
- Change in plans = only a part of the plan has been changed

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✅ PROPHESY [PROF-uh-sigh] (v.) = to predict.

✅ PROPHECY [PROF-uh-see] (n.) = prediction.

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⏹ - It won't fly = That won't fly = It'll never fly 🎈🎈🎈

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⏹ - It won't fly = That won't fly = It'll never fly 🎈🎈🎈

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FACT: We can use “whose” with people AND objects:

I know a boy *whose* dad 👨 is tall. → ✔.

I have a car 🚘 *whose* door is missing. → ✔.

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Word Root: –cide (kill)

- patricide (father)
- matricide (mother)
- fratricide (brother)
- sororicide (sister)
- regicide (king) 🤴🏻

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✳️ - stay with something

= to continue doing something although it is difficult or although other people have stopped doing it

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✳️ - stay with something

= to continue doing something although it is difficult or although other people have stopped doing it

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