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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Good morning, Miss Li.
- Morning, Mike.
- I ' m sorry that I was absent yesterday.
- I ' Ve already got your certificate for sick-leave. How do you feel today?
- I feel much better now.
- Have you received the reading material handed out yesterday?
- I ' Ve already got it. Thanks.
- I will explain it in detail in the next class. Could you preview it?
- I will.

💡 Example 💡 cruciger

cruciger (adj): ... the specimens furnish a certain terminus post quem for the reign of Meḥadeyos placing it much later than 420 when the iconography of the Victory with a cruciger sceptre was used for the first time on the 'solidi' of Teodosius II.

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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

They are planning a surprise party for their friend's birthday.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

Alex listened to a lecture before a big test. Alex paid attention to the details and got an A.
- (Alex) I just got my score. I got an A!
- That's great! I'm so happy for you.
- I'm relived, I was very anxious about that test.
- How'd you do it?
- Honestly, I just paid attention to the lectures in class, It made a big difference.
- That's great. I'm going to start taking better notes.

✳ sit (verb)

Sounds:
- /sɪt/

Forms:
- sits (present, singular, third-person)
- sitting (participle, present)
- sat (past)
- sate (dated, past, poetic)
- sat (participle, past)
- sitten (archaic, dialectal, participle, past)
- en-conj-simple (inflection-template)
- sit (infinitive)

sit (verb) senses:
1. (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
2. After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
3. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
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✳ sit (noun)

Forms:
- sits (plural)

sit (noun) senses:
1. (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
2. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
3. (informal) Short for situation.

🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

The friends are having a barbecue party in the garden.

💡 Example 💡 bear

bear (verb): They surged about her, caught her up and bore her.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- The washing machine isn't working again.
- It's not my fault.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

He enjoys playing video games.

✳ clinic (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈklɪnɪk/

Forms:
- clinics (plural)

clinic (noun) senses:
1. A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
2. (medicine, by extension) A hospital session to diagnose or treat patients.
3. (medicine, obsolete) A school, or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by examining and treating patients in the presence of the pupils.
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