🎧 Synthesis (memory) 🎧

Benefits➕:
👂 Retain details by linking dates with names and places ;
💠 Recall more after listening to conversations and news reports ;
👤 Become a more attentive listener .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Listen and then match the terms to complete the links.

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❓ ⬅️➖born in➖ GANDHI ➖ practiced law in ➖➡️❓

1️⃣ South Africa
2️⃣ England
3️⃣ 1869

✅ Answer Key:

✅ 1869 ⬅️➖born in➖ GANDHI ➖ practiced law in ➖➡️ South Africa ✅

❓ ⬅️➖ led ➖ GANDHI ➖ opposed ➖➡️❓

1️⃣ partition of India
2️⃣ Salt March
3️⃣ Britain during WWI

✅ Answer Key:

✅ Salt March ⬅️➖ led ➖ GANDHI ➖ opposed ➖➡️ partition of India ✅

❓ ⬅️➖ fasting stopped violence in ➖ GANDHI ➖ assassinated in ➖➡️❓

1️⃣ Calcutta
2️⃣ 1946
3️⃣ Delhi

✅ Answer Key:

✅ Calcutta ⬅️➖ fasting stopped violence in ➖ GANDHI ➖ assassinated in ➖➡️ Delhi ✅

✍️ Word of the Day 📎

Etymology
From the Latin e-, meaning "out", and vocare, meaning "to call". Adjectives often end in -ive.

💠 Brevity (writing) 💠

Benefits➕:
💬 Learn to express yourself clearly and concisely ;
💠 Avoid redundancies in your writing ;
👁 Keep your reader's attention by writing more directly .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentence and remove an unnecessary word(-s) to make the sentence more concise. All or part of the selection can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning.

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❗️INSTRUCTIONS: remove unnecessary word or set of words.

1️⃣ Their future plans included traveling to Iceland and Portugal.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... future ... > .
TIP: Plans are already in the future, so future is unnecessary.

☑️ Their future plans included traveling to Iceland and Portugal.

2️⃣ We were asked to assemble together in the town square.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... together ... > .
TIP: Assembled means "gathered together", so the word together is unnecessary.

☑️ We were asked to assemble together in the town square.

3️⃣ None of the prisoners at all dared to disobey the warden.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... at all ... > .
TIP: None means "not any" or "not at all", so the phrase at all is unnecessary.

☑️ None of the prisoners at all dared to disobey the warden.

4️⃣ The rough estimate I developed for my car repairs is lower than my mechanic's quote.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... rough ... > .
TIP: Rough means "not exact", and estimate means "a guess or judgment made with the available information".

☑️ The rough estimate I developed for my car repairs is lower than my mechanic's quote.

5️⃣ For months she vacillated back and forth between options for her college major.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is(are) < ... back and forth ... > .
TIP: Vacillating means "wavering between options", so back and forth is unnecessary.

☑️ For months she vacillated back and forth between options for her college major.

✍️ Word of the Day 📎

Etymology
Related to the Latin dignus, meaning "worthy".

💪 Exercise of the Day 💪

ℹ️ Learn sport vocabulary as you do them!

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➰ Commas (writing) ➰

Benefits➕:
➿ Improve your understanding of how to use commas correctly ;
✍️ Write more clearly and effectively .

❗️INSTRUCTIONS:
Determine the place where comma is missing.
Madam Secretary [ , ] ✔️ I politely disagree...

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❗️ Insert 1️⃣ missing comma :

1️⃣ An Earth day is 24 hours, very similar⭕️to the length of a day on Mars. In contrast, a Jupiter day lasts only about 10 Earth hours⭕️and a Venusian day lasts nearly 243 Earth days.

✅ Answer: An Earth day is 24 hours, very similar❌to the length of a day on Mars. In contrast, a Jupiter day lasts only about 10 Earth hours,✅and a Venusian day lasts nearly 243 Earth days.