Unit 3: Lesson 1

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  1. affect
    have an influence upon
  2. element
    an abstract part of something
  3. ensure
    be careful or certain to do something
  4. participate
    be involved in
  5. specify
    be particular about
  6. extreme
    of the greatest possible degree, extent, or intensity
  7. absolute
    perfect or complete or pure
  8. contrast
    the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
  9. contradiction
    opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
  10. argument
    an assertion offered as evidence that something is true
  11. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  12. support
    establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  13. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  14. point of view
    the perspective from which a story is told
  15. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  16. objective
    undistorted by emotion or personal bias
  17. rhetorical question
    an inquiry that is not supposed to be answered
  18. correlative
    expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation
  19. conjunction
    a function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases
  20. complex sentence
    a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
  21. independent clause
    a section in a complex sentence that can stand alone
  22. subordinate clause
    a section in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone
  23. subordinate
    (of a clause) unable to stand alone as a complete sentence
  24. combustion
    a reaction of a substance with oxygen to give heat and light
  25. scarcity
    a small and inadequate amount
  26. aquifer
    underground layer of rock or sand that yields groundwater
  27. adaptability
    flexibility to fit changed circumstances
Created on Fri Sep 11 16:07:51 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Jun 21 09:38:34 EDT 2021)

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