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Write 📝 = what authors do
Right = opposite of “left”; correct ✔
Rite = ceremony; custom
Wright = maker or builder 🛠
(Tricky, right?) 😏
[Comic by @PHDcomics]
#vocabulary
Blithe = happy 😄; cheerful; carefree
Lithe = flexible; bending easily; limber
Luffy is both *blithe* and *lithe*.
#vocabulary
Climactic = pertaining to a climax: The play’s *climactic* scene is bloody. 🔪🙀
Climatic = relating to climate: Let’s not pretend that *climatic* change isn’t real. 🌡🌎
#vocabulary
Wither = (v.) become dry and shriveled
Weather = (n.) climate
Flowers *wither* in hot *weather*. 🌺🌞
Whither = (adv.) to where, to what place or state: *Whither* will Kakashi go for lunch? 🍣🍲
#vocabulary
Timber = wood prepared for building
Timbre [TAM-ber] = character of a sound
In a low-pitched *timbre*, Jo yelled, “Timber!”
👷🏻♀️🗯 🌲
#vocabulary
First come, first serve. → ❌
First come, first SERVED. → ✔
👩🏻🦱💭 Think of it as “The FIRST to COME will be the FIRST to be SERVED.”
#idiom
The difference between a wise man and an educated man 😂
https://t.co/x2VE3jV8QD by
@ZachWeiner
#grammar #who #whom
Troop = group of soldiers, police, etc. 👮🏻♂️
Trope = overused theme; cliché
Troupe = group of actors, singers, etc. 👨🏼🎤💃🏽 (e.g., Phantom Troupe from “Hunter x Hunter”)
#vocabulary
“Data” 📈 is technically the plural of “datum,” but “data” is now used as a singular or plural noun.
So,
The data IS → ✔
The data ARE → ✔
[Comic via @PHDcomics]