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If I had to describe this person in just one phrase, I would say "down to earth" πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸŒΉπŸŒΉ
✳️ I wish I was - I wish I were ✴️

#Grammar
Demur [dih-MUR] = to object; hesitate

Demure [dih-MYOOR] = shy

Fatimah, a *demure* 😳 girl, *demurred* when she was asked to model swimsuits. πŸ‘™

#Vocabulary
πŸ’  How to fix a COMMA SPLICE πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹πŸ› πŸ”§πŸ”¨ (4/1)

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πŸ’  How to fix a COMMA SPLICE πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹πŸ› πŸ”§πŸ”¨ (4/2)

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πŸ’  How to fix a COMMA SPLICE πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹πŸ› πŸ”§πŸ”¨ (4/3)

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πŸ’  How to fix a COMMA SPLICE πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹πŸ› πŸ”§πŸ”¨ (4/4)

Is it ever okay to use a comma splice?

#Grammar
πŸ˜‡ 😈 πŸ–ŒπŸ–πŸ–‹πŸ› πŸ”§πŸ”¨
πŸ’  - quixotic (adj.) /kwΙͺkˈsΙ’tΙͺk/ - mainly literary

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

origin: from Don Quixote + -ic

#Vocabulary
✳️ homophones ✳️
▢️ homophones: - pause ⏸ - paws 🐾

➑️ pause /pɔːz/ ⬅️ paws
➑️ paw /pɔː/
πŸ–Œ antithesis (noun) /Γ¦nˈtΙͺΞΈΙ™sΙͺs/ - formal
plural ➑️ antitheses /-siːz/
~ He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.

πŸ–‹ antithetical (adj.) /ˌæntΙͺˈθetΙͺk(Ι™)l/
~ antithetical views
✴️ - be (right) up one's alley = be (right) down one's alley (AmE)

✳️ - be right up one's street (BrE)

#idiomatic_expressions
✳️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

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✴️ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

- 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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πŸŒ€ - venomous vs poisonous 🐸 πŸ‰ 🌱

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πŸ’° - pay one's dues πŸ’°

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

#idiomatic_expressions
πŸ’° - pay one's dues πŸ’°πŸ˜πŸ˜Ž
▢️ - disseminate (verb) /dΙͺˈsemΙͺneΙͺt/ - formal πŸ’‘πŸ“šπŸ“–

= 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) /dΙͺˌsemΙ™ΛˆneΙͺΚƒΙ™n/

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

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