StudySync: Hatchet Excerpt Vocab

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amphibious

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Adjective: able to live or operate on both land and water

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asset

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Noun: a valuable person, thing, or quality; advantage or resource

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extensive

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Adjective: covering or extending over a large area; great in extent

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motivated

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Adjective: having a strong reason to do something

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obvious

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Adjective: easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind

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connotation

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An idea or feeling that a word invokes (to bring out in you)

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denotation

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The literal definition of a word

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fiction

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Writing that describes imaginary events and people

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nonfiction

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Writing based on facts, real events, and real people

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memoir

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A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge