💡 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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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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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

They explored the dense forest.

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Jesse was taking a long time to organize their office at work and the boss was waiting.
- (Jesse) My boss is getting fed up with me.
- That is not a good thing to hear.
- I took a long time to organize my office at work.
- And your boss was watching?
- He was watching and he was waiting.
- You'd better start looking for another job.

💡 Example 💡 yearsworth

yearsworth (noun): We've given a million pounds to these waterworks and we shan't live to use more than (say) fifteen yearsworth of them.

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✳ burden (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈbɜːdn̩/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈbɝdn̩/ (General-American)

Forms:
- burdens (plural)

burden (noun) senses:
1. A heavy load.
2. A responsibility, onus.
3. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
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✳ burden (verb)

Forms:
- burdens (present, singular, third-person)
- burdening (participle, present)
- burdened (participle, past)
- burdened (past)

burden (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
2. (transitive) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).