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💡 Example 💡 abovedeck

abovedeck (adv): I wondered, sir, if you might like to accompany me abovedeck for some fresh air.

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🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

I had never seen such a beautiful sunset before.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Have you heard about the robbery?
- I saw the whole thing happen.
- For real?
- I was in the bank during the robbery.
- What went down?
- Some dude came into the bank with a gun.
- Are you serious?
- When he pulled out the gun, I got so scared.
- Tell me what else happened.
- He got the money and tried to leave.
- Did the cops get him?
- The cops arrested him before he could even make it out the door.

✳ meet (verb)

Sounds:
- /miːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /mit/ (General-American)

Forms:
- meets (present, singular, third-person)
- meeting (participle, present)
- met (participle, past)
- met (past)

meet (verb) senses:
1. To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
2. To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
3. To get acquainted with someone.
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✳ meet (noun)

Forms:
- meets (plural)

meet (noun) senses:
1. (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
2. (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
3. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
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✳ meet (adj)

Forms:
- meeter (comparative)
- meetest (superlative)

meet (adj) senses:
1. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

🌜 Future Perfect 🌛

She had solved the puzzle quickly before anyone else.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- You look tired.
- Yeah, I've been working so much overtime lately.
- Really? How come?
- My boss gave me a big project. I had to have it finished by this morning. It was so difficult.
- You shouldn't work so hard.
- I know, but hard work pays off. You know.
- What do you mean?
- Maybe now I'll get that promotion I was hoping for.

💡 Example 💡 saltness

saltness (noun): Take five or six salt Herrings, wash them very well, lay them in a pretty Quantity of Water all Night to take out the Saltness […]

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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

He rode his bike through the park.

✳ fact (noun)

Sounds:
- /fækt/

Forms:
- facts (plural)

fact (noun) senses:
1. Something actual as opposed to invented.
2. Something which is real.
3. Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
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✳ fact (intj)

fact (intj) senses:
1. Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one.

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