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🔹Than
Сравнительный союз (conjunction)
"than" используется для сравнения двух или более объектов, людей или идей. Он помогает установить разницу или степень между ними.
Comparative Sentences:
She is taller than her brother.
This book is more interesting than the last one.
Expressions of Preference:
I would rather read than watch TV.
He likes coffee more than tea.
🔹Then
Наречие (adverb) "then" используется для указания на время или последовательность событий. Оно может обозначать момент времени в прошлом или будущем, а также служить для связи действий в последовательности.
Time Reference:
We went to the park, and then we had lunch.
I will call you then.
Conditional Statements:
If you finish your homework, then you can go out.
If it rains, then we will stay indoors.
Logical Sequences:
First, we will study, and then we will take a break.
You need to submit the report, and then we can discuss it.
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🕸Dormant
🦦 (of an animal) having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep
🫧 Ex:- During the winter months, the bears will often go dormant and hibernate.
🌨Basic Synonyms
🌓 asleep
🌓 slumbering
🌓 inactive
🌟Advanced Synonyms
✨ comatose
✨ supine
✨ lethargic
✨ torpid
✨ aestivating
🌔Antonyms
🍀 awake
🍀 wakeful
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🎶Repertory2⃣
🎼a collection, especially of music or information
🎻 Ex:- This year, the Boston Philharmonic has expanded its repertory to include compositions from Mexico.
🎸Basic Synonyms
collection
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🎨Repertory1⃣
🎭 the performance of various plays, operas, or ballets by a company at regular short intervals
Ex:- Martin was overjoyed when he learned his audition was good enough to get him accepted at the New York Repertory for Young Composers.
❄️Basic Synonyms
🫧 theater
🫧 troupe
🫧 school
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📜 Screed
📝a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious
✍Example:-
When they lost the match, the team coach launched into an almost incoherent screed on all the areas the team had to improve in.
📒Basic Synonyms
🖌 rant
📔Advanced Synonyms
🖍 harangue
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🥢Palatable
🍽(of food or drink)
pleasant to taste; has acceptable taste
🍴Example:-
Tonight, a surprisingly palatable spread will be laid out on the table. Don't be shy — come.
🧉Basic Synonyms
🥤 tasty
🥤 eatable
🍹Advanced Synonyms
🧋 appetizing
🧋 edible
🧋 savoury
🧋 delectable
🧋 luscious
🧋 flavourful
🧃Antonyms
🫗 distasteful
🫗 unsavoury
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💡Mellifluous
/məˈlɪflu.əs/, /mɛˈlɪflu.əs/
⚜Sweet or musical; pleasant to hear.
💥Her mellifluous voice captivated the audience during her performance.
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🔸Cacophony
⚜A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
💥 The cacophony of honking cars and
shouting pedestrians filled the streets of the busy city.
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🌺Diffident.
●Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid, distrustful of one's own powers.
●He was diffident about his own success.
●Because she was only a first-year student, she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture.
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🌺Spurious
/ˈspjʊəriəs/ 《adjective》
●a spurious statement, argument etc is not based on facts or good thinking and is likely to be incorrect.
▪️He demolished the opposition’s spurious arguments.