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Plum
Plump
Plumb

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Plum is a fruit.

Plump is a verb.
He plumped himself into the sofa.
She plumped the bag.

Plumber is some someone who does plumbing work.
B is silent. Pronounced same as plum.
Homophone to plum.

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Homonym
Homophone
Homograph

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Homonym
Homophone is a type of homonym
Homophone is a type of homonym

Homophone: 
same pronunciation. 
Different spelling. 
deer dear 
Two to too

Homograph
Same spelling
different or same pronunciations

quail as a bird and quail as a verb: feel or show fear.
She quailed at his heartless words.

Bow (as in boat) as a ribbon as bow (as loud)as to bend down

Desert as a land
Desert as a abandon
I’m going to desert this group chat.

Bass: fish /as ass/
Bass: musical instrument/base/

She is in tears because of wear and tear.

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Charcuterie

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/ˌSHärˈko͞odərē/

Cold cooked meat collection

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Aril aril

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The fleshy part of pomegranate seeds.

What’s inside is the actual seed which is edible with roughage.

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roughage

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Roughage is a fibrous indigestible material. .

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cartilage

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Cartilage/ /ˈkärdlij/ silent i 软骨
Ligament /ˈliɡəmənt/ don’t silent a 韧带

Wear and tear /like /there/
Stiffness
Sore (not sour!)
Achy

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Vicious circle

Virtuous circle

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Circle!!!
恶性循环
Detrimental

virtuous cycle
Aka positive feedback loop
Favorable feedback

Virtuous Circle vicious Circle
virtuous cycle vicious cycle

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detrimental

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Obviously harmful
de-tri-Men-tal
e as bed

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curate

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Select, organize, and look after items.
Both exhibitions are curated by the museum’s director.

In the past years the festival has been curated by the likes of David Bowie.

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Herculean

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Muscular and strong

Always capital H

Her-cu-Leen

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hot off the press

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News that’s exciting and new

Hey, it’s hot off the press —- Greg got the promotion over Paul.

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holy grail

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The cup Jesus used at the last supper.

A thing that’s earnestly pursued or sought after.
Profit has become the holy grail.

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指压按摩

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shiatsu

She-Aa-tsu

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Gustavus Adolphus college

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Gustavus Adolphus college

Goos-Staa-vus
A-Doll-fus

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adamant

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Refusing to be persuaded or to change ones mind.

Firmly and resolutely

A-da-mant

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resolute

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Re-so-loot

admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering.

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划格线

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Crosshatch is a verb
Shade an area with intersecting sets of parallel lines.

It is also a noun
A pattern made by such lines.

Crosshatching is the noun.
We only see a screen of crosshatching, when he shared his application over webex.

Cross-hatch
Crosshatch

A crosshatch mesh is
A mesh full of crosshatches

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Synonym to
Important
Famous

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prominent

Andy jassy, successor of Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon, is one of the most prominent
Businessmen in the planet.

His fortune is comparatively modest $440 million.

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Swear words

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pissed is a swear word
Shit
Shitty
Wtf is as much a swear as fuck or a middle finger.

20
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adj
Done without being planned organized or rehearsed

Adv
without being planned organized or rehearsed

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An impromptu press conference

He spoke impromptu

21
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enthusiasm

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In-Thusi-a-sm

22
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Discourage

Dispirit

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Dishearten

the farmer was disheartened by the damage to his crops.

23
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Strip on the road is called:

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rumble strips

Aka
Sleeper lines
alert strips

24
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随便

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as you please.

25
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Humiliate

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发音容易吞音：

Hu mil li ate

26
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cheat sheet

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A piece of paper with written notes typically one is used surreptitiously in an exam.

Cheet sheet

27
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Bad handwriting

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Chicken scratch

Dribble
Scrawl v.
Scribble
Cacography

illegible

His handwriting is nothing but scribbles.

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Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

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derogatory

de Rogetory

29
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Willing to consider or accept new suggestions land ideas

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Receptive

A receptive audience

30
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Soaring or economical with regards to money or food

Simple and plain and cost little

Mahindra has a culture of frugality.
We can be a lot more frugal leaning from them.

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frugal

31
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Curveball

Curve

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something which is unexpected, surprising, or disruptive.

If someone throws you a curve or throws you a curve ball, they surprise you by doing something that you do not expect.

32
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There is a say that says; “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle”, this shows that if you assist someone you lose nothing by doing so.
By Thomas Jefferson.

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How dare you talk about my daughter that.

If you think you can or if you think you can’t, you are right.
Henry Ford

Confident women complement women.

Be kind.

Don’t let others minimize you.

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Capstone

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The high point
Crowning achievement

The capstone of her career

34
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OTA

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Over the air

OTA is a technology to update software or firmware remotely.

35
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Swallow ones pride

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To decide to do something although it will make you feel embarrassed or ashamed.

He was forced to swallow his pride and ask if he could have his old job back.

36
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有良心的

合乎道德的

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conscientious

Con she En shes

Unconscientious

Conscience
Kon shens

Note it is different from
Conscious. Kon shes
Adj 有意识的

Unconscious
无意识的

37
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Over eagerness

Proactiveness

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Over eager to please

Proactive to plan ahead of time

38
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繁荣

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Prosperity

Prosperous
Bringing wealth and success
We wish you a prosperous New Year!

39
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Beat a dead horse

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To keep talking about a subject that has already been discussed or decided.

I don’t mean to beat a dead horse but I still don’t understand what happened.

40
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Long-term virtual work could have multiple xxx health effects on everyone.

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deleterious

Dele-Tiourious

41
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No longer new and interesting or exciting

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Stale

42
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Buck wild

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Crazy unrestrained

Uncontrolled

A standard is something we can hand to an OEM and they can go buck wild and expand all of our projects

43
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mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.

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ca·ma·ra·de·rie
/ˌkäməˈrädərē,ˌkaməˈrädərē/

camaraderie

“a genuine camaraderie on the hockey team”

44
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An adj that describes something breaks your heart.

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Heartbreaking

Heartbroken

You’d be heartbroken after a death.

The news is so heartbreaking.

Heartbroken is used to describe feeling, that’s correct. And heartbreaking can be used to describe anything that causes great sadness or extreme distress.

With a broken heart, I’m sending my condolences.

It is so heartbreaking to hear he lost his daughter.

My heart is broken when I heard…
My heart broken when..

Break broke broken

Wake woke waken

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Champion

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Noun

a person who fights or argues for a cause or on behalf of someone else.
“a champion of women’s rights”

Verb

support the cause of; defend.
“priests who championed human rights”

46
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A supposed law of nature, expressed in various humorous popular savings, to the fact that anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

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Murphy’s Law

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