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lift Verb

— Someone lifts something when they use their hands to make the thing go up. He lifted the little boy onto his shoulders. She lifted the heavy box from the floor onto the table. He is lifting some suitcases.

lift Noun

— If you give someone a lift, you drive them somewhere, usually in your car. — A lift is a machine that lifts people up or down to different parts of a building.

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up Preposition

— Toward the top or toward the sky. The balloon went up.

up Adjective

— In a high position. The flag is up. — . It was an up day. — optimistic. He is feeling up. — Put in trust, entrusted. It is up to you. — ing, occurring. What’s up? They act like something is up. — . Something is up with him. — Planning, plotting mischief. He is up to something. — ed. It is all up with them.

up Noun

— State of being up, often with down. Life has its ups and downs.

up Verb

— Increase, increment. We upped the dosage.

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and Conjunction

— You use and to talk about two things at once. I like singing and reading. Mary and Jane went on a holiday together. — You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list. I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer. I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring. — And is used when you are putting two sentences together. She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left. — Used to show what happened after something else. The alarm went off and I woke up. — And is used to join certain numbers together. Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.

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let Verb

— When you let someone do something, you allow them to do it. I let him come with me. — When you let a building or a space in a building, you rent it. I will let my extra room to him.

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fall Verb

— When something or someone falls, it moves down quickly down through the air because nothing is holding it. It moves to a lower position because of gravity. The apple fell from the tree. The bridge is falling down. He tripped on a banana peel and fell down, hurting his leg. — When someone falls, they can mean coming down to the ground on purpose, lying with the face down. He fell to the floor and begged for mercy. — Falling is when someone or something has been defeated. The Romans fell to the Goths in 410 AD.

fall Noun

— Fall is the name for autumn used only in North America, named after the falling of leaves during the season. It is the season when the weather is getting colder, after summer and before winter. These plants are growing big and they will be ready to eat in the fall. — A fall or falls or waterfall is a part of a river where water is falling. We went to the falls to eat lunch outside and watch the water falling. — A fall is when people suffered a loss of greatness or status, such as the fall of Rome.

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