(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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📜 The Part of Speech Poem 📜

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🔰 Avoid 🆚 Prevent

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✨🌺 Good night and have sweet dreams 🌺✨

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

💢 PART 2 💢


1️⃣2️⃣ : Ultimate

❌ Does not mean:
The pinnacle or the best

✅ Does mean:
The final entry in a list of items

1️⃣3️⃣ : Decimate

❌ Does not mean:
To completely wipe out or annihilate

✅ Does mean:
To eradicate ten percent

1️⃣4️⃣ :Panacea

❌ Does not mean:
A cure

✅ Does mean:
A cure-all, as in a medication that would cure a wide variety of ailments

1️⃣5️⃣ : Fortuitous

❌ Does not mean:
As if by luck

✅ Does mean:
As if by chance

1️⃣6️⃣ : Plethora

❌ Does not mean:
A great amount of something

✅ Does mean:
An amount in excess of what is necessary

1️⃣7️⃣ : Travesty

❌ Does not mean:
An exceedingly troublesome or unfortunate event.

✅ Does mean:
A satirical or parodic rendering

1️⃣8️⃣ : Nauseous

❌ Does not mean:
Feeling sick to one’s stomach

✅ Does mean:
Causing the feelings of sickness and nausea

1️⃣9️⃣ : Redundant

❌ Does not mean:
Repetitive

✅ Does mean:
Unnecessary, excessive, expendable

2️⃣0️⃣ : Terrific

❌ Used today as:
Awesome

✅ Originally meant:
Inspiring fear

2️⃣1️⃣ : Bemused

❌ Does not mean:
To find funny, to be amused by something

✅ Does mean:
To find puzzling, to be confused by something

2️⃣2️⃣ : Literally

❌ Should not be used:
To indicate strong emphasis or as a way to comment on something that did not happen in reality but occurred figuratively

✅ Should be used:
To indicate that something actually happened

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🚘 Types of vehicles 🚖

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✨ Verbal Nouns ✨

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💢 British slang words & phrases ( 1 )

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💢 British slang words & phrases ( 2 )

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#ATM

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