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- Why don't you go out with Jack?
- He makes me sick.
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The scientist has published a groundbreaking paper.
💡 Example 💡 Muskian

Muskian (adj): Together, the essays in this volume seek to assemble withdrawal as a concept that, in turn, may help us to identify, regroup, and understand apparently diverging political and socio-cultural phenomena ranging from[…]to the Trumpian/Muskian fantasies of intergalactic colonization disenchanted by Sharma in the coda to this book.

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GLASS
glass (noun)

Sounds:
- /ɡlɑːs/
- [ɡlɑːs] (Received-Pronunciation)
- [ɡläːs] (General-Australian, New-Zealand)
- [ɡlɐːs] (General-Australian, New-Zealand)
- /ɡlæs/
- [ɡlæs] (Canada, US)
- [ɡlɛəs] (Canada, US)
- [ɡleəs] (Canada, US)
- [ɡlas] (Ireland, Northern-England)

Forms:
- glasses (plural)

glass (noun) senses:
1. (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
2. (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
3. (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
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glass (verb)

Forms:
- glasses (present, singular, third-person)
- glassing (participle, present)
- glassed (participle, past)
- glassed (past)

glass (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
2. (transitive) To enclose in glass.
3. (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass. To fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fibreglass).
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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Addison needed a way to carry all of the books, so they bound them together and carried them by the string.
- (Addison) I can't believe in this day and age, I have to carry all these textbooks. I am going to break my back.
- I know, I am taking a physic class and there's three books.
- Try English Lit, I have 5 books for that one.
- Well, I am using my sister's exercise bands to carry my books.
- Great idea!! I have been using my shoe strings.
- How can that be? You're wearing loafers.
🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The train departs from the station.
ROUGH
rough (adj)

Sounds:
- /ɹʌf/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Forms:
- rougher (comparative)
- roughest (superlative)

rough (adj) senses:
1. Not smooth; uneven.
2. Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
3. Turbulent.
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rough (noun)

Forms:
- roughs (plural)

rough (noun) senses:
1. The unmowed part of a golf course.
2. A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
3. (cricket) A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
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rough (verb)

Forms:
- roughs (present, singular, third-person)
- roughing (participle, present)
- roughed (participle, past)
- roughed (past)

rough (verb) senses:
1. To create in an approximate form.
2. (ice hockey) To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
3. To render rough; to roughen.
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rough (adv)

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

rough (adv) senses:
1. In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
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