Academic Vocabulary & Gather Vocabulary Knowledge, Unit 3

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  1. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  2. convey
    transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
  3. discourse
    an extended communication dealing with some particular topic
  4. explanation
    making something understandable
  5. interact
    do something together or with others
  6. isolation
    the act of setting something apart from others
  7. meaning
    the message that is intended or expressed or signified
  8. misinterpret
    construe wrongly
  9. respond
    show a reaction to something
  10. confusion
    a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
  11. connection
    a relation between things or events
  12. language
    a means of communicating by the use of sounds or symbols
  13. self-expression
    the expression of one's individuality
  14. emotion
    any strong feeling
  15. verbal
    of or relating to or formed from words in general
  16. awareness
    state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness
  17. perspective
    a way of regarding situations or topics
  18. subjective
    taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
  19. distinct
    constituting a separate entity or part
  20. entirety
    the state of being total and complete
  21. realization
    coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
  22. initial
    occurring at the beginning
  23. assertion
    a declaration that is made emphatically
  24. stark
    severely simple
  25. social
    living together or enjoying life in communities
  26. juxtapose
    place side by side
  27. element
    a substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances
  28. demise
    the time when something ends
  29. indigenous
    originating where it is found
  30. primary
    of first rank or importance or value
  31. theorize
    construct a hypothesis about
  32. align
    arrange so as to be parallel or straight
  33. vigorously
    in an energetic manner
  34. complexity
    the quality of being intricate and compounded
  35. accessible
    capable of being reached
  36. scale
    an ordered reference standard
  37. attribute
    a quality belonging to or characteristic of an entity
  38. excavation
    the act of digging
Created on Thu Oct 15 16:03:21 EDT 2020

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