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How to spell allusions

Allusions is spelled A-L-L-U-S-I-O-N-S.

What it means: More than one indirect remark or hint about something.

In a sentence: Her poem has clever allusions to several well-known nursery rhymes. ▶

The part people get wrong

Double l and the -sion ending sounds like zhun.

Same family: allusion. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

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