🌜 Past Continuous 🌛

The chef was tasting the sauce before adding it to the dish.

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- I just got fired.
- You asked for it.

💡 Example 💡 Germanophobia

Germanophobia (noun): In the mid-1860s, Russia also experienced an outbreak of Germanophobia.

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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

She is creating a stunning piece of artwork with watercolors.

✳ institution (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɪnstɪˈtʃuːʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃən/ (General-American)

Forms:
- institutions (plural)

institution (noun) senses:
1. A custom or practice of a society or community.
2. A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
3. The building or buildings which house such an organization.
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🌜 Future Simple 🌛

By next week, they will have completed a fundraising event to support medical research and innovation.

🗣 Conversation 🗣

Aubrey was always trying to spend time with me even when I wanted time to myself, she went to my friends house to see me.
- (Aubrey) I was just over Ben's house again. I'm not sure if he likes me.
- He has said repeatedly that he needs so breathing room. Don't suffocate him.
- I know but I love being around him. He is so funny.
- I am not sure if he feels the same way as you do about him.
- Maybe I should stop seeing him so much.

✳ professor (noun)

Sounds:
- /pɹəˈfɛsə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/ (General-American)

Forms:
- professors (plural)

professor (noun) senses:
1. The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor."
2. (US, informal) A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
3. (archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
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💡 Example 💡 Grand Turk

Grand Turk (name): Because they are styled "the executive," "executive officers," &c., by their Jenkinses, and are declared by the same authorities to possess unbounded knowledge, and transcendent "executive ability," they sometimes fancy themselves the Czar, the Shah, or the Grand Turk […]

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🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The dog fetches the stick.

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- all you have to do is vote and put a stamp on it.
- how easy is that?

✳ improve (verb)

Sounds:
- /ɪmˈpɹuːv/

Forms:
- improves (present, singular, third-person)
- improving (participle, present)
- improved (participle, past)
- improved (past)

improve (verb) senses:
1. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
2. (intransitive) To become better.
3. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
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