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| a list, outline, or plan of things to be considered or done |
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allusion allude to the Bible |
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| a casual or indirect reference to something |
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apocryphal alligators in sewers |
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| of questionable authenticity or authorship; fake |
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calumny politics turn to calumny to win |
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| false accusation of a crime or offense; malicious misrepresentation |
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cipher cipher hieroglyphics |
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| writing done with such a secret method; or the key to decoding such writing; somehting or someone of no value or importance |
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cliche toss out some cliches |
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| stereotyped phrases; anything that has been heard so often that it has becom dull (trite) due to overuse; tend to be commonplace |
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digressive digressive Mrs. Singler |
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| tending to depart from the main point to cover a wide range of subjects; rambling |
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dissertation PhD's dissertation |
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| formal spoken or written essay, especially one written by a PhD candidate |
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doctrine follow the doctrine |
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| a principle, position, or policy held by a religion or government; a statement of such a policy |
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excerpt excerpt of the document |
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a passage or piece from a larger work or document |
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expository expository essay |
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| serving to explain or defend with argument |
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memoir memoir of childhood |
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| account of the author's personal experience |
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metaphorical darrin is a ball of fire |
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| expressing a thing in terms normally denoting another |
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paraphrase intellectualize |
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| to say something in your own words |
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pedantic wedding planner=pedantic |
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| overly concerned with details or formalities |
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prologue before the story |
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| an introduction to a written or spoken work; introductory act |
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| rework material into a new form |
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retract retract a confession |
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| to withdraw a statement, opinion, or promise |
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| concise; brief; curt; a sparing of words |
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transcribe transcribe oral traditions into books |
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| to make a written copy of; to translate into another language |
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chronicle the chronicles of narnia |
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| an historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
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connotation what connotations do you have with this word? |
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the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes; implication the feelings you have surrounding a word |
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docket did you follow the docket? |
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calendar of business matters to be acted on; agenda
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platitude you make one too many platitude remarks |
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a banal, trite, or stale remark; the state of being dull
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slander do not speak such slander! |
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| the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation |
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abridged an abridged version can be found online |
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prolix prolix writing often takes too much time and patience to read |
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| drawn out with an excessive use of words; too long and wordy |
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ratify Congress ratified the treaty |
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unlettered my father doubts that much can be learned from books; he is unlettered |
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| lacking facility in reading and writing and ignorant of the knowledge to be gained from books |
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