Clym Yeobright is the central character in Thomas Hardy's novel 'The Return of the Native' (1878).
The preposition 'at' is used to indicate a specific speed rate or price.
'Between' is used when referring to two people or things. 'Among' is used for more than two.
'Deny' means to state that something is not true. The sentence means no one can say it's untrue that he is clever.
The verb 'to lie' (meaning to recline) has the past tense form 'lay'. 'Yesterday' indicates past tense is needed.
When passivizing a sentence with a phrasal verb ('played on') the preposition 'on' must be retained. So the passive is 'The flute was played on by her.'
'Adieu' is a French word for 'goodbye'. Its opposite is a greeting word such as 'Hello'. Farewell and Valediction are synonyms of Adieu.
'Lest' is a subordinating conjunction introducing a subordinate clause. A sentence with one main and at least one subordinate clause is complex.
A 'choir' is an organized group of singers especially one that takes part in church services or performs in public.
'Acme' means the point at which someone or something is best perfect or most successful. It fits the context of reaching the peak of a career.
'Compare to' is used when highlighting similarities between two different types of things (here an emotion and an element).
The correct spelling is 'Pneumonia'. Others should be 'Horoscope' 'Occasion' and 'Embarrass'.
Desdemona is the wife of the titular character in William Shakespeare's tragedy 'Othello'.
Meteorology is the branch of science concerned with the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere especially as a means of forecasting the weather.
In British English 'at the weekend' is standard. In American English 'on the weekend' is more common. Both are correct but 'at' is preferred in formal contexts.
Some nouns have the same form for both singular and plural. 'Sheep' is one of them (one sheep many sheep). Other examples include deer fish etc.
This famous line is spoken by Duke Senior in Act II Scene I of William Shakespeare's comedy 'As You Like It'.
'Enable' is the verb form meaning 'to make someone able to do something'. 'Capable' is an adjective and 'inability' is a noun.
Equivocation is the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth. It often involves saying something that can be interpreted in two different contradictory ways.
This is part of a famous soliloquy spoken by Macbeth in Act V Scene V of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' upon hearing of his wife's death.