✳ tool (noun)

Sounds:
- /tuːl/

Forms:
- tools (plural)

tool (noun) senses:
1. A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
2. Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
3. Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
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✳ tool (verb)

Forms:
- tools (present, singular, third-person)
- tooling (participle, present)
- tooled (participle, past)
- tooled (past)

tool (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
2. (transitive) To equip with tools.
3. (intransitive) To work very hard.
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🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

I have been learning to play a musical instrument.

💡 Example 💡 viceroy

viceroy (noun): Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Skylar carried the dog outside for a walk, it was a lovely day.
- (Skylar) Did you make it outside today?
- No, I was working all day.
- It was such a beautiful day, I brought the dog out for a long walk.
- Where did you guys go?
- We went to the park and over by the water.
- Sounds like a perfect day.

✳ correspondent (adj)

Sounds:
- /ˌkɒɹɪˈspɒndənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌkɔɹɪˈspɑndənt/ (General-American)

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

correspondent (adj) senses:
1. Corresponding; suitable; adapted; congruous.
2. (with to or with) Conforming; obedient.

✳ correspondent (noun)

Forms:
- correspondents (plural)

correspondent (noun) senses:
1. Someone who or something which corresponds.
2. Someone who communicates with another person, or a publication, by writing.
3. A journalist who sends reports back to a newspaper or radio or television station from a distant or overseas location.

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🌜 Past Perfect Continuous 🌛

We had been having a picnic in the countryside before the rain started pouring.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Jack wonders whether Linda likes him or not.
- Why doesn't he ask her?
- He is too scared to ask her.
- He's a chicken guy.

💡 Example 💡 supererogation

supererogation (noun): According to standard definitions of supererogation, acts are supererogatory if and only if they are neither morally obligatory nor morally prohibited, but nevertheless have moral value (are morally good, etc.).

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🌜 Present Perfect 🌛

We have gone on an exciting safari.

✳ violence (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləns/
- /ˈvaɪ(ə)ˌlɛns/ (obsolete, poetic)

Forms:
- violences (plural)

violence (noun) senses:
1. Extreme force.
2. Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
3. Widespread fighting.
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✳ violence (verb)

Forms:
- violences (present, singular, third-person)
- violencing (participle, present)
- violenced (participle, past)
- violenced (past)

violence (verb) senses:
1. (nonstandard) To subject to violence.

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