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There may be times when you need to cite a newspaper article in an essay,...
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Antonyms (i.e. words with opposite meanings) often look similar. Take ‘explicit’ and ‘implicit’, for example:...
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Since they sound identical when spoken, it’s easy to confuse the words ‘chord’ and ‘cord’....