🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

I was attending a concert last weekend.

💡 Example 💡 counterthought

counterthought (noun): His thoughts and their counterthoughts are bent and curled, snail-like, inside the whorls of fiction.

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🌜 Past Simple 🌛

The team qualified for the finals.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- May I have your attention please?
- Would you please be quiet, Ladies and Gentlemen?
- Well, my speech isn't very long. Would you please ...
- Quiet everybody!

✳ herself (pron)

Sounds:
- /hɜːˈsɛlf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /əsɛlf/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /hɝˈsɛlf/ (General-American)
- /ɚsɛlf/ (General-American)

Forms:
- she (reflexive-of)
- himself (masculine)
- itself (neuter)
- themselves (plural)

herself (pron) senses:
1. (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
2. (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.
3. (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

Audio (US)

🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

He was studying late into the night, determined to succeed in his exams.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- this trail is hard to climb.
- especially on a hot day like this.

💡 Example 💡 -onium

-onium (suffix): Alternative form: -ium

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✳ media (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˈmiːdiə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈmɛdiə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈmidi.ə/ (General-American)

Forms:
- medias (plural)
- mediae (plural)
- media (plural)

media (noun) senses:
1. (anatomy) The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
2. (linguistics, dated) A voiced stop consonant.
3. (entomology) One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus
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✳ media (adj)

media (adj) senses:
1. (computing) Clipping of multimedia.

Audio (RP)

🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

The team had won the championship before the new coach joined.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

- Have you washed any clothes yet?
- No, I've only washed my whites.
- When you wash your dark clothes, can you put some of mine in?
- Sure. Is there any extra care that I should take with your clothes?
- Just make sure you keep it on the gentle cycle.
- How many clothes of yours do you want me to wash?
- There isn't a lot, why, do you have a large load to wash?
- It's really only a small load.
- Do you mind washing my clothes?
- Not at all. It's no problem.
- Thank you so much.
- It's no trouble at all.

🌜 Past Perfect 🌛

We had gone shopping at the mall before it closed.

💡 Example 💡 jentacular

jentacular (adj): Dressed in an asphodel green bombagette frock, loosefitting and lightweight to accomplish a jentacular ease, […]

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