Flowers for Algernon Vocabulary

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To cause someone to believe what is not true

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Deceive

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Simple or childlike

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Naive

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Evidence to prove a statement false

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Refute

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Process of becoming worse

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Deterioration

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Relating to the ability to think and understand ideas

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Intellectual

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Thoughtful; inward-looking

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Introspective

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Narrator's perspective: self experience

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First person point of view

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Narrator uses "he" or "she"

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Third person point of view

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Conclusion from evidence

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Inference

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Character leading to own destruction

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Tragic character