Unit 5: Lesson 5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 12, Unit 5, Lesson 5.
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  1. essay
    an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  2. thesis
    an unproved statement advanced as a premise in an argument
  3. comparison
    the act of examining resemblances
  4. clause
    an expression including a subject and predicate
  5. synonym
    a word that expresses the same or similar meaning
  6. antonym
    a word that expresses an opposite meaning
  7. forebear
    a person from whom you are descended
  8. underpin
    confirm or support with evidence or authority
  9. pervasive
    spreading or spread throughout
  10. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  11. sea change
    a profound transformation
  12. posit
    put forward, as an idea
  13. immersion
    complete attention; intense mental effort
  14. Luddite
    any opponent of technological progress
Created on Wed Sep 02 13:54:09 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Sep 08 13:16:46 EDT 2020)

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