💢 IDIOMS 🆚 PROVERBS

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✨ 7 Tips on Writing an Effective Essay ✨

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🔰 Meaning:
one shouldn't act without first considering the possible consequences or dangers.
✨ The family was asked to look before they leap into buying this house.

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💠 CHILIAD 💠

noun ; chil·i·ad \ˈki-lē-ˌad, -əd\

✨ Definition :

1 : a group of 1000
2 : millennium

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💠 Chiliad 🆚 millennium

What's the difference between a chiliad and a millennium?

Not much: both words refer to a period of 1000 years. While millennium is more widely used, chiliad is actually older, first appearing in the late 1500s (millennium didn’t make its way into written English until the following century).
Not surprisingly, both words trace back to roots that mean thousand. Millennium comes from the Latin mille, and chiliad is a descendent of the Greek chilioi.

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💠 Chiliad 💠

✨ Synonyms ✨

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💎 Rat on someone

⭕️ To tell someone in authority that someone else is doing something bad

✨ He ratted on his friends and didn't have to go to jail.

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🔰 Useful sentence structures 🔰

1️⃣ When Subject + Verb + Object, Subject 1 + Verb 1 + Object 1

💢 When a language dies out, a whole way of life disappears with it.

2️⃣ While Subject + Verb + Object, Subject 1 + Verb 1 + Object 1

💢 While some students drop out after a few years studying, others finish academic courses with poor degrees.

3️⃣ Subject + Verb + Object, resulting in an increase/a decrease in + the number of smth/the demand for smth

💢 Many people in the countryside migrate into big cities, resulting in an increase in the demands for accommodation, food and services in urban areas.

4️⃣ Subject + Verb + Object, giving rise to smth

💢 Advertisements give people more choices on what they want to buy, giving rise to the consumer society.

5️⃣ Compared to those who + Subject + Verb + Object, Subject + Verb + Object

💢 Compared to those who hold high school qualifications, university graduates often have more employment opportunities.

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🔰 Ineffable : adj

in·ef·fa·ble ▶️\(ˌ)i-ˈne-fə-bəl\
• ineffability ( n )
• ineffableness ( n )
• ineffably ( adv. )

⏺ Example : ineffable joy

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💎 THREE-WORD phrasal verbs

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💠( 5 ) Meronym & Holonym

A meronym is a word that denotes a constituent part or a member of something.

Adj.: meronymous
Antonym: Holonym

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💠( 5 ) Meronym & Holonym

For example, apple is a meronym of apple tree (sometimes written as apple<apple tree).
This part-to-whole relationship is called meronymy.

Meronymy is not just a single relation but a bundle of different part-to-whole relationships.

The opposite of a meronym is a holonym—the name of the whole of which the meronym is a part.

Apple tree is a holonym of apple (apple tree>apple).
The whole-to-part relationship is called holonymy.

✨ Etymology

From the Greek,"part"+"name"

✨ Examples and Observations

"[I]n one context finger is an appropriate meronym of hand, and in other cases flesh is an appropriate meronym of hand.

Finger and flesh, however, are not co-meronyms of hand, since different relational criteria (functional part versus material) are applied in each case."

✨ Types of Meronym Relationships

At one level, meronyms can be divided into two types: 'necessary' and 'optional' , otherwise called 'canonical' and 'facilitative'.

An example of necessary meronymy is eye<face.
Having an eye is a necessary condition of a well-formed face, and even if it is removed, an eye is still a face part.

Optional meronymy includes examples like cushion<chair—there are chairs without cushions and cushions that exist independently of chairs.

Meronymy is a term used to describe a part-whole relationship between lexical items. Thus cover and page are meronyms of book.

Meronyms vary . . . in how necessary the part is to the whole. Some are necessary for normal examples, for example nose as a meronym of face; others are usual but not obligatory, like collar as a meronym of shirt; still others are optional like cellar for house.

In many ways, meronymy is significantly more complicated than hyponymy.

The Wordnet databases specify three types of meronym relationships:

1️⃣ Part meronym: a 'tire' is part of a 'car'

2️⃣ Member meronym: a 'car' is a member of a 'traffic jam'

3️⃣ Substance (stuff) meronym: a 'wheel' is made from 'rubber'

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(informal)= to become suddenly very successful or very well known

Synonym : attract attention

✨He always believed he would make a splash in Washington.

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🌊 MAKE A SPLASH 🌊

✨ Synonyms: cause a sensation, cause a stir, draw attention to oneself/itself, get noticed, make an impression, make an impact

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🌈 Colors in English 🌈

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2️⃣2️⃣ Everyday Words You Might Not Realize You’ve Been Using INCORRECTLY ‼️

💢 PART 1 💢


1️⃣ : Ironic

❌ Does not mean: Something cosmically shitty or funny that happened to you.

✅ Does mean:
An occurrence that is the opposite of what you’d expect.

2️⃣ : Peruse

❌ Does not mean:
To skim a text or browse over the key parts.

✅ Does mean:
To read something attentively.

3️⃣ : Consent

❌ Does not mean:
To give one’s enthusiastic permission or agreement

✅ Does mean:
To passively agree, even if you have a negative opinion of what you’re agreeing to

4️⃣ : Effect

❌ Does not mean:
To cause or to induce something to happen, like change

✅ Does mean:
The outcome of a cause, like a “Cause and Effect” situation

5️⃣ : Compelled

❌ Does not mean:
To voluntarily do something, usually out of a moral or internal impulse

✅ Does mean:
To be forced, obligated or pressured into doing something

6️⃣ : Disinterested

❌ Does not mean: Uninterested, as in “bored” by the outcome or something

✅ Does mean:
Impartial, not influenced by the outcome of something.

7️⃣ : Instant

❌ Does not mean:
Very quickly, with lightning speed

✅ Does mean:
A specific point in time.

8️⃣ : Irregardless

❌ Does not mean:
Regardless

✅ Does mean:
Nothing, because it’s not a real word

9️⃣ : Enormity

❌ Does not mean: Enormousness

✅ Does mean:
A profoundly evil or immoral act

1️⃣0️⃣ : Chronic

❌ Does not mean:
Severe or intense

✅ Does mean:
A condition or state that lasts for a protracted period

1️⃣1️⃣ : I.E.

❌ Does not mean:
For example

✅ Does mean:
In other words


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🌐 KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER 🌐

= To have just enough to live or survive or to manage to do all of your work.

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