Course I: Unit 2, Academic Vocabulary

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  1. apply
    be pertinent or relevant
  2. achieve
    gain with effort
  3. envious
    painfully desirous of another's advantages
  4. consider
    look at carefully; study mentally
  5. consume
    engage fully
  6. grand
    large and impressive in physical size or extent
  7. accommodate
    make compatible with
  8. destiny
    a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future
  9. inherent
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  10. contemporaneous
    occurring in the same period of time
  11. composite
    consisting of separate interconnected parts
  12. opaque
    not clearly understood or expressed
  13. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  14. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  15. root
    the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  16. figurative
    not literal
  17. academic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  18. comparison
    the act of examining resemblances
  19. contrast
    the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
  20. temporal
    of or relating to or limited by time
  21. narrator
    someone who tells a story
  22. informative
    serving to instruct or enlighten
  23. introduction
    the first section of a communication
  24. conclusion
    the last section of a communication
  25. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  26. topic sentence
    a statement that provides the main idea of a paragraph
  27. relevant
    having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
  28. conjunction
    a function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases
  29. comma
    a punctuation mark (,) indicating the separation of elements
  30. pronoun
    a function word that is used in place of a noun
  31. antecedent
    the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
Created on Fri Sep 25 12:17:41 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Sep 28 09:40:18 EDT 2020)

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