✳ 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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🗣 Conversation 🗣

- I like pop music very much.
- What?
- I said I like pop music very much.It ' s so lovely.
- Is it?

🌜 Future Perfect 🌛

They will have achieved their financial goals by the end of the quarter.

💡 Example 💡 harden

harden (verb): When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

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✳ wind (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈwɪnd/
- /ˈwaɪnd/ (archaic)

Forms:
- winds (plural)

wind (noun) senses:
1. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
2. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
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✳ wind (verb)

Forms:
- winds (present, singular, third-person)
- winding (participle, present)
- winded (participle, past)
- winded (past)
- wound (participle, past, proscribed)
- wound (past, proscribed)

wind (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
3. (transitive, Britain) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
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