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  • 71adduce — [[t]ædju͟ːs, AM du͟ːs[/t]] adduces, adducing, adduced VERB If you adduce something such as a fact or reason, you mention it in order to support an argument. [FORMAL] [V n] The evidence she adduces to back up her arguments is usually authoritative …

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  • 72assignment — n. 1. Appointment, allotment, apportionment. 2. Designation, specification, fixing, determination. 3. Offer, offering, showing, giving, presentation, alleging, adducing. 4. (Law) Transfer, conveyance …

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  • 73discuss — discuss, argue, debate, dispute, agitate mean to discourse about something in order to arrive at the truth or to convince others. Discuss implies an attempt to sift or examine especially by presenting considerations pro and con; it often suggests …

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  • 74disprove — disprove, refute, confute, rebut, controvert mean to show or attempt to show by argument that a statement, a claim, a proposition, or a charge is not true. Disprove stresses the success of an argument in showing the falsity, erroneousness, or… …

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  • 75quote — quote, cite, repeat are not close synonyms, though all mean to speak or write again something already said or written by another. Quote usually implies a use of another s words, commonly with faithful exactness or an attempt at it, for some… …

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  • 76citation — n 1. citing, quoting, referring, alludinfe to, adducing; attesting, alleging, proving. 2. quotation, Inf. cite, extract, abstract, excerpt, passage, selection, clipping, reference, allusion; illustration, evidence, proof, documentation, witness,… …

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  • 77adduce — UK [əˈdjuːs] / US [əˈdus] verb [transitive] Word forms adduce : present tense I/you/we/they adduce he/she/it adduces present participle adducing past tense adduced past participle adduced formal to give a particular fact as proof that something… …

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  • 78adduction — ad•duc•tion [[t]əˈdʌk ʃən[/t]] n. 1) phl the action of adducting 2) the act of adducing • Etymology: 1630–40; < ML …

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  • 79adduce — /əˈdjus / (say uh dyoohs) verb (t) (adduced, adducing) to bring forward in argument; cite as pertinent or conclusive: to adduce reasons. {Latin addūcere lead to} –adducible, adjective –adducer, noun …

  • 80adduction — /əˈdʌkʃən/ (say uh dukshuhn) noun 1. Physiology the action of the adductor or adducent muscles. 2. the act of adducing …