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When English borrows from another alphabet
"In point" only lives in this phrase.
Test your knowledge of strange human behaviors.
The awkward case of 'his or her'
symbiote 'an organism living in symbiosis'
charlatan 'faker or fraud'
lowlife 'a person of low moral character'
kakistocracy 'government by the worst people'
slimeball 'a morally repulsive or odious person'
How many of these commonly confused words do you know?
a large number
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It's a bird? It's a plane? No, I'm really asking. What is it?
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The dictionary has been scrambled—can you put it back together?
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