pond is the same as a lake, only smaller.
of / from
OF is used for POSSESSION – Who does it belong to?
A friend of mine
(=my friend)
The president of the company
(=the company’s president)
The color of that car
(=that car’s color)
FROM is used for ORIGIN – Where did it come from?
I’m from the United States.
This T-shirt is from Mexico.
I got this book from the bookstore.
(It is now MY book, but its origin was the bookstore)
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oppress / suppress / repress
The verb oppress means to keep somebody down by using unjust force. For
example, a cruel dictator might oppress his country's people, or the ethnic majority
of a population might oppress the minority. Oppress always has a negative
connotation, and oppression is usually a continuous condition and not just a one-
time event.
The word repress can be used in two ways:
1) To put a stop to something by force.
A country's army can repress a revolution or revolt - stop it by fighting and winning
against the revolutionaries. Politicians and governments can also repress
opposition or dissent (disagreement) through control of the media as well as
threatening people who have different opinions.
2) To hold back your feelings, or avoid revealing or acting on them.
If your boss makes an embarrassing mistake during a presentation to a client, you
may have to repress your laughter (not laugh, even though you want to). The word
"suppress" can also be used for this, and is probably more common.
In psychology, if feelings, memories, or desires are repressed, it means they are
buried deep in the person's consciousness (and often cause some negative effects on
thinking or behavior). For example, a man who abuses children may have repressed
memories of himself being abused when he was a child.
Suppress is the most common of the three, and has the most general meaning. It can
be used:
1) In the same sense as repress - to stop a rebellion, uprising, revolt, or dissent by
using force. Sometimes we add the adjectives violently, brutally, or bloodily if the
suppression involved fighting and killing.
2) For holding back feelings - similarly to repress, but without the psychology
meaning. If one of your co-workers who is extremely lazy receives a huge
promotion, you might have to suppress your surprise upon hearing the news.
We often say somebody was "unable to suppress" their emotion if they couldn't
avoid showing their feelings, or "tried to suppress" their emotion if they are making
an effort but having difficulty:
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