Academic Vocabulary Lesson #1

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• annotation

• citation

• denotation

• claim

A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

• claim

• counterclaim

• argument

• relevant

the persons reached by a book, radio, or television broadcast, etc; the public

• claim

• diction

• point-of-view

• audience

the main idea of a writing; the point the author wants you to remember

• central idea

• counterclaim

• fallacy

• purpose

a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work

• claim

• counterclaim

• citation

• inference

signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary

• connotative

• denotative

• diction

• ethos

an assertion of something as a fact

• counterclaim

• purpose

• claim

• explicit

a claim made to rebut a previous claim

• explicit

• counterclaim

• claim

• sufficient

the quality of being trusted and believed in

• logos

• pathos

• credibility

• ethos

the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it

• connotative

• diction

• relevant

• denotative