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Word Cases

Fixed Pairs (binomials)
10 lessons, 100 pairs

Common Word Groupings (collocations)
50 Lessons, 200 phrases

Word-pair comparisons say-vs-tell
advice-vs-advise
affect-vs-effect
assertive-vs-aggressive
complex-vs-complicated
economic-vs-economical
persuade-vs-convince
fremember-vs-remind
serious-harsh-severe
sympathy-empathy

Words Spectrum
Similar words with different shades of meaning anger-annoyanced
anticipation
attention-interest
attitude
change
complexity
confidence
deception
dislike
effort
liking
looking
problem-size
responsibility
risk-danger
smart
speaking-force
thinking
time-perception
uncertainty
understanding
walking-speed

Expressions
phrases, idioms, collocations 

Textbook vs. Natural Speak, Pt. 1    

Textbook vs. Natural Speak, Pt. 2    

See It Through, more ...

More Than Meets The Eye, more ...

Draw A Distinction, more ...

Raise A Concern, more ...

Be In Over Your Head, more ...

Talk Someone Into, more ...

Step Up, more ...

Out And About, more ...

Not Fruitful, more ...

That said, Threw me off, more...

Make a point of, Take it personally, more...

Up in the Air, Fair enough, more...

Put up with, Deal with, more...

Sympathy vs. Empathy

Syrocket, Plummet, Surge, Slump

Rule Out, Narrow Down, Add Up.

Ends Up, Pans Out

8 useful idioms

Spit it out | Speak out/up

Back up/off

Get away (with)

Overcast, Level up your weather talk

Turns Out

Go/That figure/s

Shipshape, Top Form

Give Notice, Noted

Pull/Get it together

Come across as

Figure it Out

Come to terms/grips

Look Over, overlook

on earth, in the world 

Too bad

to table, on/off the table, to shelve    

Came Across/Upon 

Turn around, come back, right place etc.   

Catch a break, Lucky break 

End up, Wind up, Found Oneself at 

If you say so    

It is what it is    

Pass out, Faint, Unconscious    

Lend, Borrow    

You can say that again, Last thing I need,  Fell for that

What is Sarcasm 

24 Conversation Idioms 

Hear me out and more

Top Verb Collocates ...

Hold your horses and more

Rub the wrong way and more

That's a stretch and more

Breaking point and more

Never Mind and more 


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