Academic Vocab 2

of great importance to the success of something

• crucial

• explicit

• mastery

• cliche

 make or become less

• idiom

• diminish

• homonym

• decode

the marks used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning.

• evaluate

• assess

• punctuation

• explicit

convert into intelligible language

• succinct

• cliché

• integral

• decode

 a phrase or opinion that is overused and shows a lack of original thought.

• homonym

• assess

• cliché

• crucial

 a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

• stereotype

• succinct

• decode

• diminish

each of two or more words having the same spelling  but different meanings

• punctuation

• homonym

• evaluate

• stereotype

necessary to make a whole complete;

• integral

• idiom

• instruction

• decode

form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.

• evaluate

• mastery

• instruction

• diminish

 briefly and clearly expressed

• evaluate

• succinct

• diminish

• crucial