❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

8️⃣ ADJECTIVE: without a center or lacking cohesion —

A — CENTR — IC
❌ ❌
TRI — CULP — EE

✅ Answer: adj acentric .
A (not or without) + CENTR (center) + IC (containing) = ACENTRIC — without a center or lacking cohesion.

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

9️⃣ NOUN: state of being kept or held —

DE — MORPH — IZE
❌ ❌
ANTI — TEN — TION

✅ Answer: n detention .
DE (down or away) + TEN (hold or keep) + TION (action or process of) = DETENTION — state of being kept or held.

❗️INSTRUCTIONS: Assemble the word.

1️⃣0️⃣ NOUN: practice of one side acting alone —

THERMO — STATIO — GEO — ISM
❌ ❌ ❌
UNI — LATER — AL — LY

✅ Answer: n unilateralism .
UNI (one or singly) + LATER (side or wide) + AL (relating to) + ISM (practice or doctrine) = UNILATERALISM — practice of one side acting alone

💠 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 The storm event prompted the school to cancel classes.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... event ... > .
TIP: A storm is already an event, so event is unnecessary.

☑️ The storm event prompted the school to cancel classes.

2️⃣ The accident happened because he followed after her car closely.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... after ... > .
TIP: Followed means "came after", so the word after is unnecessary.

☑️ The accident happened because he followed after her car closely.

3️⃣ The coaches vacillated back and forth on which play to call.

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

☑️ The coaches vacillated back and forth on which play to call.

4️⃣ The professor bored his students with his wordy verbosity.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... wordy ... > .
TIP: Both wordy and verbosity mean "using more words than necessary, so wordy is unnecessary.

☑️ The professor bored his students with his wordy verbosity.

5️⃣ The added bonus on our trip to Washington, D.C., was seeing the cherry blossoms.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... added ... > .
TIP: Both added and bonus mean something "extra", so the word added is unnecessary.

☑️ The added bonus on our trip to Washington, D.C., was seeing the cherry blossoms.

6️⃣ They took a photo in front of the Capitol building.

✅ Answer: 🔰 The unnecessary word(-s) here is (are) < ... building > .
TIP: Capitol means the "building in which legislators meet", so building is unnecessary.

☑️ They took a photo in front of the Capitol building .