OST VOCAB 3/15

To make the meaning more transparent and easier to understand 

• explicit

• clarify

• compose

• contrast

write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry) 

• compose

• plot

• paraphrase

• Clarify

To translate from the original text into one's own words

• Clarify

• compose

• Paraphrase

• contrast

The events and actions of a narrative work

• Interpret

• Plot

• Clarify

• Contrast

An assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory

• Premise

• Explicit

• Interpret

• Contrast

explain the meaning of (information, words, or actions) 

• Compose

• Contrast

• Explicit

• Interpret

stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt

• Clarify

• Explicit

• Contrast

• Compose

the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.

• Clarify

• Contrast

• Compose

• Explicit

Please _______ the meaning of any initials appearing in the proposed names.

• Clarify

• Compose

• Contrast

• Mr. B

Write in your journal, ________a song, or take up painting.

• Explicit

• Compose

• Clarify