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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Travesty & perspicuous
Could you explicate these 2 words to me? I still do not understand after reading its definition. Thanks[A]
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Well, I don't know what definitions you don't understand, so there's no point in my givng my own, which might be the same. What part do you not understand of the dictionary definitions? Here they are: Travesty: –noun 1.
- Well, I don't know what definitions you don't understand, so there's no point in my givng my own, which might be the same.
- What part do you not understand of the dictionary definitions?
- Here they are: Travesty: –noun 1.
- a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter.
- 2.
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Well, I don't know what definitions you don't understand, so there's no point in my givng my own, which might be the same. What part do you not understand of the dictionary definitions? Here they are:
Travesty:
–noun
1.a
Travesty:
–noun
1.a
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Fascinating!
It seems to me that this dictionary gives an example of usage after a colon (:) as in the first definition (travesty).
... or imitation: a travesty of justice.
And yet for the definition of perspicuous, the example is this.
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It seems to me that this dictionary gives an example of usage after a colon (:) as in the first definition (travesty).
... or imitation: a travesty of justice.
And yet for the definition of perspicuous, the example is this.
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