Flashcard:ass#1
Terms
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Insightful (adj)
(insight(N))
" Your effort to find more than meets the eye should lead to insightful observation and productive discussion."
P.XXXI - meaning:(insight) the ability to understand something clearly
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enormus(adj)
"....Like an enormus highway sign."
P.XXX - meaning: extremely large in size or amount
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commuters(N)
"where the audience is composed of commuters in their car?"
P.XXX - meaning: someone who regularly travels in order to get to work.
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overwhelm (V)
" Our purpose for providing all this information, by the way, is not to overwhelm you with stuff you have to know and think about in order to read the material you will encounter."
P.XL -
meaning: if a feeling overwhelms someone, s/he feels it very strongly.
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abolish (V)
" Do you think standardized college admission tets should be abolished?"
P.XXXV - meaning: to officially end a law,system
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rhetoric (N)
" A discipline that studies the various methods and procedures of expression is rhetoric."
P.XXXII -
meaning: 1.speech or writing that sounds impressive but is not actually sincere orvery useful.
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Inconsequential (adj)
" -,be careful of too quickly dismissing some works as simple, travel, or inconsequential."
P.XXXI - meaning: not important
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Meticulous (adj)
" writer and artists are known for their meticulous observations."
P.XXXIII - meaning: very careful about details, and always trying to do things correctly
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inconography (N)
"What does it mean to use the iconography of road signs in public art?"
P.XXX -
meaning:1. the art if pictorial representation or illustration.
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Method(N)
"-it's method."
P.XXIX - meaning:a term refers to how a text is put togather-generated, expressed, structured, and put to purpose.