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| carrel |
a cubicle large enough for one reader, often in or near the stacks of a library. |
| get across |
to make (a point or idea) clearly understood to a listener or reader. [1/2 definitions] |
| hokum |
in a dramatic or written work, crude, trite, or mawkish material intended to arouse an emotional response from the audience or reader. [1/2 definitions] |
| interleaf |
an additional leaf or page, usu. blank, that is bound between other pages of a book, often for a reader to make notes on. |
| lectern |
a desk or stand with a slanted top to hold books, notes, or the like for a standing speaker or reader, as in a classroom or church. |
| lede |
the first sentence or a very brief introduction to a journalistic piece intended to draw in the reader. |
| objective correlative |
a literary description or a series of images that objectively depict a certain emotion and evoke that same emotion in the reader or viewer. |
| sight word |
in vocabulary learning, a word, usually short and basic, that a reader recognizes visually, without having to decode it phonetically or otherwise. "The," "we," "their," and "have" are typical sight words. |
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