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Vocabulary 3
FAST Prep
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Comprehend | to understand fully |
| Conclusion | to end something such as a speech, conversation, or piece of writing to have a particular opinion about something after thinking carefully about it |
| Conflation | the merging of two or more ideas or sets of information into one |
| connotation/ connotative language | language that communicates a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation |
| Consonant blend | two or more consecutive consonants that retain their individual sounds (e.g.,/bl/ in block or / str/ in string) |
| Contemporaneous | existing, occurring, or originating, during the same time |
| Context | the situation in which something exists or happens, and that can help explain it the test or speech that comes immediately before and after a particular phrase or piece of text and helps explain its meaning |
| Conventions | commonly accepted rules of written English, e.g., spelling, usage, punctuation, capitalization, and sentence formation |
| Counterclaim | an opposing claim : a claim made in reply to another claim and different from it |
| Credible | capable of being believed |
| Decoding | translating a word from print to speech, usually be employing knowledge of letter and sounds relationship; also, the act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out |
| Demonstrate | to show or make something clear to show something and explain how it works |
| Denotation | the meaning or a word or phrase, usually as defined by a dictionary |
| Develop | to bring out the possibilities of to begin or exist or be present gradually to create over time to grow or cause to grow more mature, or more advanced |
| Digraph | a group of two consecutive letters that are read in a single sound (e.g., /ea/ in bread; /ch/ in chat; /ng/ in sing |