🌜 Present Simple 🌛

She practices meditation for peace.

✳ Palestinian (adj)

Forms:
- more Palestinian (comparative)
- most Palestinian (superlative)

Palestinian (adj) senses:
1. Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.

✳ Palestinian (noun)

Forms:
- Palestinians (plural)

Palestinian (noun) senses:
1. An inhabitant of Palestine or an Arab descending from that area.
2. An inhabitant of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, legally governed by the Palestinian National Authority.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Can you manage chopsticks?
- Why not? See.
- Good mastery. How do you like our Chinese food?
- Oh, great! It's delicious. You see, I am already putting on weight. There is one thing I don't like however, MSG.
- What's wrong with MSG? It helps to bring out the taste of the food.
- According to some studies it may cause cancer.
- Oh, don't let that worry you. If that were true, China wouldn't have such a large population.
- I just happen to have a question for you guys. Why do the Chinese cook the vegetables? You see what I mean is that most vitamin are destroyed when heated.
- I don't know exactly. It's a tradition. Maybe it's for sanitary reasons.

🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

She had completed her graduation with honors before starting her job.

💡 Example 💡 processional

processional (noun): And Eugene watched the slow fusion of the seasons; he saw the royal processional of the months; he saw the summer light eat like a river into dark; he saw dark triumph once again; and he saw the minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death.

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🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

We were hiking up a steep and challenging mountain trail.

✳ recipe (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/ (UK, US)
- /ˈɹɛs.ə.pi/ (UK, US)

Forms:
- recipes (plural)

recipe (noun) senses:
1. (medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
3. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Kai went to the zoo by himself. Kai saw the animals up close.
- (Kai) I went to the zoo today!
- That's awesome. Who did you go with?
- Well, plans fell through so I ended up going alone.
- Oh, I'm sorry for that.
- No, it was worth it. I got to see the lemurs up close.
- Oh, nice. They are so cute!

🌜 Past Perfect Continuous 🌛

The flowers had been blooming beautifully all spring before the cold weather arrived.

💡 Example 💡 blusterous

blusterous (adj): These Sunday-morning hair-cuttings were performed by Fairway; the victim sitting on a chopping-block in front of the house […] . Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually blusterous, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Lee was about to dive off a pier when Sydney saw it was shallow. Sydney pulled him back and saved Lee's skin.
- (Sydney) Lee was not paying attention and where he was going to jump off the pier was shallow.
- He never looks to see what is around him before he does it.
- I had one second to pull him back, before he jumped.
- Good thing he had you there to save him from hitting he head in the shallow water.

✳ eventually (adv)

Sounds:
- /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃuː.ə.li/ (UK)
- /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃʊ.li/ (UK)
- /ɪ.ˈvɛn.tjʊ.li/ (UK)
- /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.ə.li/ (US)
- /ɪ.ˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.li/ (US)

eventually (adv) senses:
1. In the end; at some later time, especially after a long time, a series of problems, struggles, delays or setbacks.
2. (mathematics, of a sequence) For some tail; for all terms beyond some term; with only finitely many exceptions.
3. (proscribed, non-native speakers' English) Possibly, potentially, perhaps

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