✳ highlight (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈhaɪ.ˌlaɪt/

Forms:
- highlights (plural)

highlight (noun) senses:
1. (painting, photography) An area or a spot in a drawing, painting, or photograph that is strongly illuminated.
2. (figuratively) An especially significant or interesting detail or event or period of time.
3. (cosmetics) A strand or spot of hair dyed a different color than the rest.

✳ highlight (verb)

Forms:
- highlights (present, singular, third-person)
- highlighting (participle, present)
- highlighted (participle, past)
- highlighted (past)
- highlit (nonstandard, participle, past)
- highlit (nonstandard, past)

highlight (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
2. (transitive) To be a highlight of.
3. (transitive) To mark (important passages of text), e.g. with a fluorescent marker pen or in a wordprocessor, as a means of memory retention or for later reference.
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Audio (US)

🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

She was knitting a warm and colorful scarf for her best friend.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- well, i have to go back upstairs anyway.
- it's getting later every minute.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The clock strikes midnight.

✳ moreover (adv)

Sounds:
- /mɔɹˈoʊvɚ/ (General-American)
- /mɔːˈɹəʊvə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

moreover (adv) senses:
1. (conjunctive) In addition to what has been said; furthermore; additionally.

Audio (US)

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- We need to know whether you have the special training.
- Actually, I received that kind of training when I was in college.
- How about your experience?
- I worked as a PR clerk for one year

💡 Example 💡 homily

homily (noun): Will it be said, that Literature and Christianity, are two distinct things? Or, that it would be preposterous to expect that every writer should give us a homily, when we want to laugh, or a sermon, when we wish to think?

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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

They will create an app that connects mentors with mentees worldwide for personal growth.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- How long will it take us to drive to London?
- I think it ' s a distance of 180 kilometers from here to London, so it should be a two-hour drive on the motorway.
- That ' s unless there is a traffic jam. It could take three hours.
- You ' re right. We will be able to travel at high speeds at the beginning and end of the journey, because we will be in built-up area.
- So, shall we allow three hours to cover the distance?
- Ok. You haven ' t seen my company car, have you?
- No. let me take a look ... It ' s longer than my car.
- I think it ' s over five meters long. I can ' t remember exactly. It has a maximum speed of over 200 kilometers an hour.
- Wow! That ' s fast! I don ' t think we will be traveling that fast on the motorway.
- We can ' t. if we went that fast, we would break the speed limit.

✳ press (noun)

Sounds:
- /pɹɛs/ (UK, US)

Forms:
- presses (plural)

press (noun) senses:
1. An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
2. (countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.
3. (countable) A printing machine.
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✳ press (verb)

Forms:
- presses (present, singular, third-person)
- pressing (participle, present)
- pressed (participle, past)
- pressed (past)
- prest (participle, past)
- prest (past)

press (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, intransitive) To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
2. (transitive, mechanics, electronics) To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
3. (transitive) To compress, squeeze.
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