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Question
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
lesson – lessen – lesion
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Solution
Dr. Barnard learned a great lesson from the two disabled kids.
This medicine will lessen the pain.
The protruding thorn caused a lesion in his forearm.
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