 | Term | Definition |
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novice |
beginner |
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adversity |
misfortune |
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compassion |
sympathy; mercy |
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arid |
extremely dry |
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integrity |
honesty; decency |
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hypothesis |
losing leaves in the fall; short-lived |
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deciduous |
a theory requiring proof |
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empathy |
sharing of feelings |
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scrutinize |
to observe carefully |
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perfidious |
disloyal |
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orator |
speaker |
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argumentation |
one of the chief forms of composition; its purpose is to convince by establishing the truth or falsity of a proposition |
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incremental repetition |
the repeating of phrases and lines in such a way that their meaning is enhanced either by their appearing in changed contexts or by minor successive changes in the repeated portion |
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pun |
a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
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tone |
the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author’s choice of words and detail; tone can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, indignant, objective, etc. |
