Writing to Improve Vocabulary

Did you complete your Persuasive Essay Vocabulary Words assignment on yesterday?

• Yes

• No

Choose all that apply:

If you COMPLETED the assignment, what was your motivation for completing it?

• I want to get a good grade in this class

• I'm just doing what Mrs. Scott told me to do

• I understand that learning the vocabulary will help me complete the assignment better

• I did not complete the assignment

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If you did NOT complete the assignment, what was your reason?

• I didn't find the assignment relevant

• I didn't want to complete the assignment

• I wasn't motivated at the time

• I completed the assignment

Which vocabulary term matches this definition:

not certain or clearly true : open to argument, dispute, or question

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the quality or state of being valid

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a statement or series of statements for or against something

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well-grounded or justifiable : being at once relevant and meaningful

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an opposing claim

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to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous

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to bring (as by argument) to belief, consent, or a course of action