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chocolate
Noun
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Chocolate is a candy made from cacao beans and often used to flavour other foods such as cakes and cookies.
In my opinion, the best cookies are those that contain chocolate.
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A chocolate is an individual candy that is made of or covered in chocolate.
These homemade chocolates are delicious.
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Chocolate is a dark brown colour.
chocolate
Adjective
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Made of chocolate.
Chocolate eggs are popular Easter treats in some places.
capital
Noun
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A capital is the most important city of a country. The government of the country is usually located there.
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The (field) capital is the most important city in that particular field.
Hollywood is the film capital, New York the theater capital, Las Vegas the gambling capital.
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A person's capital is all his money and wealth.
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A capital forms the topmost member of a column or pilaster. It broadens the area of the column's supporting surface.
capital
Adjective
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A capital object or idea is something that is very important.
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very good.
That is a capital idea!
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Involving punishment by death.
Not all felonies are capital crimes.
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One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
the
Determiner
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Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist.
Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book."
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Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special.
Are you the John Smith that I went to school with?
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Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned
The poor are always with us.
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Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs.
You are the best.
world
Noun
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The Earth.
Our world needs to be cared for.
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The .
I love you more than anybody else in the world.
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The setting of a group of people.
They were in their own world as they talked about trains nobody else knew about.
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A planet.
I wonder if there is life on other worlds.