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Austin finally found the perfect dog for him. He has wanted one for a long time.
- (Austin) I found the little guy at the shelter. He was scared to death.
- I'm so glad you rescued him. What kind is he?
- He's a mix of golden retriever and Pyrenees.
- He's going to be huge, but a sweetie.
- Yeah. He's already eating two cans of food a day.
- I'll give you a case of food for Christmas.

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Cats meow when they're hungry.

✳ billion (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈbɪljən/

Forms:
- billions (plural)

billion (noun) senses:
1. (US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹; a milliard
2. (dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 10¹²
3. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

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💡 Example 💡 mathematicalism

mathematicalism (noun): And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).

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- i had two pineapples in my cart, and she asked where i had found them.
- she asked you about your pineapples?

🌜 Past Simple 🌛

She wrote a heartfelt letter to her best friend.

✳ lack (noun)

Sounds:
- /lak/ (UK)
- /læk/ (US)

Forms:
- lacks (plural)

lack (noun) senses:
1. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
2. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
3. Archaic form of lakh.

✳ lack (verb)

Forms:
- lacks (present, singular, third-person)
- lacking (participle, present)
- lacked (participle, past)
- lacked (past)

lack (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, stative) To be without, to need, to require.
2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

The plane had landed before the storm hit.

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Jan was feeling ill, so they took some medicine for a cold.
- (Jan) I just got back from the drug store. I had to get medicine for my cold.
- Are you feeling unwell?
- Yeah, I felt ill all day but it's just cold symptoms so hopefully it'll go away after the medicine.
- A good rest too, don't forget that!
- Yes I think tea and rest will make the medicine do its job even better.
- Feel well soon!

💡 Example 💡 nepenthes

nepenthes (noun): [A]ll ye (whom I ſee here preſente) doe fare as if ye were well whittled, and thoroughly moyſted with the Nectar wine of Homericall godds, not without a portion of that iuyce of that meruailous herbe Nepenthes, whiche hath force to put ſadneſſe and meloncholie from the herte: […]

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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

She had read the book twice before she lent it to me.

✳ heritage (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈhɛɹ.ɪ.tɪd͡ʒ/

Forms:
- heritages (plural)

heritage (noun) senses:
1. An inheritance; property that may be inherited.
2. A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.
3. A birthright; the status acquired by birth, especially of but not exclusive to the firstborn.
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