Saturday 21 May 2016

vocab - (21 may 2016)

WORDS
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
Fidget
To make a lot of small movements because you are nervous, bored, etc. : to move or act in a nervous or restless way.
He was constantly fidgeting in his chair.
Rhetorical
i)                    A rhetorical question is one which is asked in order to make a statement rather than to get  an answer.
i)                    ‘Do these kids know how lucky they are?’ Jackson asked rhetorically.
ii)                  Rhetorical language is intended to be grand and impressive.
iii)                These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nation rules.
Perpetuation
A perpetuation feeling, state or quality is one that never ends and changes. ; a perpetual act, situation, or  state is one that happens again and again as so seems never to end.
I thought  her perpetual complaints were going to  prove too much for me.
Engender
To be the source or cause of(something).
The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
Preponderance
A greater amount or number of something.
A preponderance of evidences points  to the guilt of the dependant.

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