More Academic Vocabulary

allusions

• language that communicates a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its meaning.

• an implied or indirect reference to another idea or topic from a poem, book or essay.

• to bring to mind or memory.

• the effect or influence of one thing or another.

cumulative

• relating to a complex process.

• to make or create.

• increasing or becoming better over time through a series of additions.

• to improve an idea or topic so it becomes more subtle or acurrate.

connotation

• language that communicates a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its meaning.

• to recognize the way things differ.

• a very small difference in color, tone or meaning.

• to describe something or someone in a particular way.

court opinion

• the meaning of a word or phrase, usually as defined by a dictionary.

• to give more details about something, to describe a topic more fully.

• a judgment about a person or thing written in a very formal legal writing.

• increasing or becoming better over time through a series of additions.

denotationt

• a very small difference in color, tone or meaning.

• the effect or influence of one thing or another.

• to bring to mind or memory.

• the meaning of a word or phrase, usually as defined by a dictionary.

distinction

• to give more details about something, to describe a topic more fully.

• to recognize the way things differ.

• an implied or indirect reference to another idea or topic from a poem, book or essay.

• language expressing an idea using figures of speech, such as, simile, metaphor, etc.

impact

• the effect or influence of one thing or another.

• to bring to mind or memory.

• relating to a complex process.

• to describe something or someone in a particular way.

technical

• to make or create.

• a very small difference in color, tone or meaning.

• relating to a complex process.

• to improve an idea or topic so it becomes more subtle or acurrate.

evoke

• to bring to mind or memory.

• the meaning of a word or phrase, usually as defined by a dictionary.

• the effect or influence of something or another.

• to recognize the way things differ.

elaborate

• to describe something or someone in a particular way.

• the effect or influence of one thing or another.

• a judgment about a person or thing written in very formal legal writing.

• to give more details about something, to describe a topic more fully.