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attention
Noun
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If you pay attention to something, you focus your mind on it.
Pay attention to me when I'm speaking to you.
He waved to draw attention to himself.
She couldn't keep her attention on her books.
reflex
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noun
an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
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adjective
(= automatic, reflexive)
without volition or conscious control
the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light
a reflex knee jerk
sneezing is reflexive
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.
pupil
Noun
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A pupil is a student, especially a young one.
They can put their children in public school, but it costs $9,600 per pupil per year.
Which learning activities will assist pupils to achieve these objectives?
The teacher called the pupils to sit on the rug in front of the class.
These pupils learn to write as well as write to learn in mathematics.
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Your pupil is the black circle in the middle of your eye.
He checked her eyes; the pupils seemed rather large for the lighting in the room.