Unit 3: Lesson 4

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  1. short story
    a brief but fully developed prose narrative
  2. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
  3. monitor
    keep an eye on; keep under surveillance
  4. comprehension
    an ability to understand the meaning of something
  5. reread
    read anew; read again
  6. connect
    make a logical or causal linkage
  7. question
    pose a query
  8. annotate
    add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
  9. complex sentence
    a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
  10. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  11. run-on sentence
    an ungrammatical sentence in which two or more independent clauses are conjoined without a conjunction
  12. addiction
    being dependent on something habit-forming
  13. remorseful
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  14. median
    a dividing area between opposing lanes of travel on a road
  15. arboretum
    a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated
  16. obituary
    a notice of someone's death
Created on Fri Sep 11 16:10:23 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Mar 21 17:08:46 EDT 2022)

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