Unit 3: Lesson 4

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  1. documentary
    a film presenting the facts about a person or event
  2. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  3. message
    what a communication that is about something is about
  4. motive
    the reason that arouses action toward a desired goal
  5. social
    relating to human society and its members
  6. commercial
    connected with or engaged in the exchange of goods
  7. political
    involving or characteristic of governing or social power
  8. voice over
    narration by an unseen speaker in a film or television show
  9. still
    a static photograph
  10. animation
    making cartoons to appear to move as living creatures do
  11. evaluate
    judge; form a critical opinion of
  12. informational
    relating to or conveying facts and knowledge
  13. heading
    a line of text indicating what the passage below it is about
  14. subtitle
    secondary or explanatory name of a literary composition
  15. subheading
    a title below the main title a text
  16. graphic
    a visual image
  17. footnote
    a printed comment placed below the main text on a page
  18. semicolon
    a punctuation mark used to connect independent clauses
  19. colon
    a punctuation mark used after a word introducing a series
  20. parenthesis
    a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
  21. context
    discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage
  22. eligible
    qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
  23. assimilate
    become like one's environment
  24. embrace
    take up the cause of someone and use it as one's own
  25. capitalize
    draw advantages from
  26. unrest
    a state of turbulent change or agitation
Created on Fri Sep 11 11:58:12 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Sep 11 17:43:30 EDT 2020)

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