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  2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  3. Raising (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    While raising-to-subject verbs are like auxiliary verbs insofar as they lack the content of predicates, they are unlike auxiliaries in syntactic respects. Auxiliary verbs undergo subject-aux inversion, raising-to-subject verbs do not. Auxiliary verbs license negation, raising-to-subject verbs do so only reluctantly: a. Fred is happy. b. Is Fred ...

  4. Glossary of professional wrestling terms - Wikipedia

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    Also road agent, producer and coach. A management employee, often a former wrestler (though it can be a current wrestler or even a non-wrestler), who helps wrestlers set up matches, plan storylines, give criticisms on matches, and relay instructions from the bookers. Agents often act as a liaison between wrestlers and higher-level management and sometimes may also help in training younger ...

  5. /æ/ raising - Wikipedia

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    Short-a (or /æ/) tensing can manifest in a variety of possible ways, including "continuous", discrete, and phonemic ("split").In a continuous system, the phoneme /æ/, as in man, can be pronounced on a continuum from a lax-vowel pronunciation ⓘ to a tense-vowel pronunciation ⓘ, depending on the context in which it appears.

  6. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/5000 most common words

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    This process will be sped up if creating sentences using multiple words from the list to construct sentences like "They think it is time to go" - "Ellos piensan que es hora de irse" in Spanish for instance. It is important to learn words in a given context and will make the words easier to remember.

  7. Verb - Wikipedia

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    A verb (from Latin verbum 'word') is word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English , the basic form, with or without the particle to , is the infinitive .

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  9. Glossary of poker terms - Wikipedia

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    A bet or raise made with a drawing hand, building the pot in anticipation of filling the draw community card See main article: community card poker complete hand See made hand completion To raise a small bet up to the amount of what would be a normal-sized bet. See table stakes. connectors Two or more cards of consecutive or close to ...