🌜 Present Simple 🌛

They draw pictures on paper.

✳ specific (adj)

Sounds:
- /spəˈsɪf.ɪk/ (General-American, UK)
- /spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/ (General-American, UK)
- /spɛk.ˈsi.fɪk/ (Hong-Kong)

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

specific (adj) senses:
1. explicit or definite.
2. (bioscience, taxonomy) pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
3. Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
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✳ specific (noun)

Forms:
- specifics (plural)

specific (noun) senses:
1. A distinguishing attribute or quality.
2. A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
3. Specification
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💡 Example 💡 indiwiddle

indiwiddle (noun): My story would have made a rather interesting idyll / And I might have lived and died a very decent indiwiddle.

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🗣 Conversation 🗣

Skylar was at the store with their mom when they got lost because they wandered off.
- (Skylar) I got lost at the store today.
- I thought you went with your mother.
- Yes, but then I started to wander off by myself and got lost.
- its ok, it can happen. That shop is so big!
- Yes, it is.
- Now I'm curious to hear how you found your mother in the end.

🌜 Present Simple 🌛

The wind blows fiercely.

✳ evolution (noun)

Sounds:
- /ˌiːvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɛvəˈluʃ(ə)n/ (General-American)
- /ˌivə-/ (General-American)

Forms:
- evolutions (plural)

evolution (noun) senses:
1. (military) A manoeuvre of troops or ships.
2. (chiefly dance, sports) A turning movement, especially of the body.
3. (obsolete) A turned or twisted shape; an involution, a complex or intricate shape.
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🌜 Present Continuous 🌛

I am studying for my upcoming exams at the library.

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- So, what do you plan to do today?
- There is a Matisse exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Larry and I will go.
- Did you buy tickets already?
- No. Do we need tickets?
- Well, probably. Probably you will have to wait in line if you don't have tickets.
- Outside or inside?
- Outside, on the sidewalk.
- Hmm. It's very cold today.But I brought my jacket. Maybe it will be alright to wait.
- The MYOMA is very popular. There will be a lot of people.
- MYOMA? What's that?
- Oh, sorry.It stands for the Museum of Modern Art. It's an acronym. M O M A MYOMA.
- I see. Do you have any suggestions for other things we should do?
- I suggest you go to the Jewish Museum.It ' s not far from the Guggenheim, near Central Park. It is really very interesting.Also, there is a great museum of medieval European art further up north.It ' s called the Cloisters.
- How can we get up there?
- You can take a bus.
- But Larry says the neighborhoods in the north are dangerous.

💡 Example 💡 aren't

aren't (verb): 2010-10-26, Athletics (music), “Why Aren’t I Home?”, in Why Aren’t I Home?:

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🌜 Present Perfect Continuous 🌛

He has been studying for the exam diligently.

✳ doubt (verb)

Sounds:
- /daʊt/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- /dʌʊt/ (Canada)

Forms:
- doubts (present, singular, third-person)
- doubting (participle, present)
- doubted (participle, past)
- doubted (past)
- en-conj-simple (inflection-template)
- doubt (infinitive)

doubt (verb) senses:
1. (transitive, intransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.
2. (transitive, archaic) To harbour suspicion about; suspect.
3. (transitive, archaic) To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend.
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✳ doubt (noun)

Forms:
- doubts (plural)

doubt (noun) senses:
1. (uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
2. (countable, obsolete or India) A point of uncertainty; a query.