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Knepper Chapter 28
Building Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| controversy | a debate; an argument; discussion of an important issue with opposing views |
| deduction | a conclusion reached through reasoning |
| dimensions | measurement in length, width, and sometimes depth |
| disperse | to break out and spread out; scatter |
| distort | to misrepresent; tell in an untrue or misleading way |
| dominant | most powerful |
| sequence | the order in which one thing follows another |
| sophisticated | wise about the ways of the world'; well-informed |
| treacherous | disloyal; traitorous |
| trivial | unimportant; not significant |