Unit 3: Lesson 1

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 9, Unit 3, Lesson 1.
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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
  3. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  4. inference
    a conclusion you can draw based on known evidence
  5. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  6. lozenge
    a diamond-shaped parallelogram with four equal sides
  7. loiter
    linger, remain, or wait around for no apparent reason
  8. emanate
    proceed or issue forth, as from a source
  9. sheepish
    showing a sense of shame
  10. discernible
    capable of being perceived clearly
  11. capacity
    capability to perform or produce
  12. emerge
    come out into view, as from concealment
  13. trace
    follow or ascertain the course of development of something
  14. confer
    have a meeting in order to talk something over
  15. generate
    bring into existence
Created on Fri Aug 28 16:03:13 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 25 09:23:17 EDT 2020)

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