Vocab

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Speculative

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Based on guesses or ideas about what might happen rather based on facts

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Extrapolating

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To extend application of something to an unknown situation by assuming the existing trends will continue (project)

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Dissent

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Different opinions from others

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Salamander

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A lizard like animal with elongated body and tail with short arms and legs once thought able to  endure fire

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Ventilator

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Acts as a belly to move air in and out of your lungs

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Imperceptible 

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Impossible to perceive

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Olfactory

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Relating to sense of smell

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Preservative

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A substance used to preserve food, wood, or other materials against decay

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Comdenation

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The expression a very strong disapproval

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Ravenous

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Extremely hungry

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Jargon

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Special words other professionals or groups use that are harder for others to understand

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Feigning

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Pretend to be affected by

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Theme

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Subject of a talk or piece of writing

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 analyze

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Examine methodically and in detail the constitution of structure of

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Literary text

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A piece of writing such as a book or a poem that has purpose of telling a story or an entertaining as in a fictional novel

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Dystopian

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Relating to or denoting and imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice

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Annotation

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A note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram

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 discourse

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Written or spoken communication

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tactile

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Connected with the sense of touch


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Oracle

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Acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from gods in classical antiquity 

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Grotesque

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Comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

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 aesthetic

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Concern with beauty or appreciation with beauty

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Falter

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Start to lose strength or momentum 

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Limned

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Depict or describe and painting or words

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Simultaneously

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At the same time

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Scapegoat

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A person to blame for wrong doings of others

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Textual evidence

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Verified text that has been collected from original source that supports a argument

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Cite

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A quote for evidence

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Motif

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A theme but described in one word

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Censorship

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The suppression or prohibition of any part of a book, film, news, etc.

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Parenthetical citation

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Gives credit in parentheses to the source that you’re quoting or paraphrasing

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Entreated

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To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something

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Assail

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Make a violent attack on

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Fortified

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Provides defense works or protection against

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Usurp

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Take a legally or forced by

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Ratified

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Sign or give consent to make officially valid

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Privy

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Sharing in the knowledge of something

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Explicit

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Stated clearly or in detail

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Implicit

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To imply but not plainly express

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Inference

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A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

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Reasoning

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The action of thinking about something in a logical sensible way

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Connotation 

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Somethings suggested by a word or thing

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Denotation

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The real meaning of a word