How to use a colon, semi colon and hyphen?

Colons are used to create a list of examples within a statement, semicolons are used to continue a given point (it's used in replacement of a comma), and hyphens are either used to combine two words as "pick-me-up" or to finish a term, such as "short-term".

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Allusion and illusion. an allusion is an indirect reference, whereas an illusion is something that is unreal or incorrect. each of the nouns has a related verb form: allude “to refer indirectly to,” and illude (not a very common word), which may mean “to delude or deceive” or “to subject to an illusion.”