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Since the explanation offered are --- to the exposition, it would be unfair to treat them as --- part of the studies under consideratio.
E. Incidental.. Essential
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Tangential
(tangenchal)
- Not relevant.
- Ex.
He showed tangential prooves of her existence. - Syn= irrelevant, incidental.
- Ant= essential, crucial.
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Subsidiary
(sobsidiery)
- Funcioning in a supporting capacity.
- Ex.
the main library and its subsidiary branches. - Syn= auxilliary, subordinate.
- Ant= chief, important, neccesary
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Irrelevant
Not having to do with the matter in question.
- Ex. He made an irrelevant comment.
- Syn= tangential, incidential, out of place, off the point.
- Ant= relevant.
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Superfluous
(soo-pur-floo-uhs)
Serving no useful purpose.
- Ex= a superfluous remark about his life.
- Syn= unnecessary, dispensable
- Ant= essential, crucial.
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Referable
- Capable of being assigned or credited to.
- Ex= punction erros are referable to careless proofreading.
- Syn=due to, imputable, attributable.
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Correspondent
Similar. (adj)
- Ex= brains and computers are often considered correspondent.
- Syn= analogous, similar.
- Ant= different, distinct, unlike.
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Incidental
Not of prime or central importance.
- Ex= the description is incidental to its meaning.
- Syn=non essential, tangential.
- Ant=essential, crucial.
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Immutable
Unchangeable.
Ex= the view of that time was that all spicies were immutable, created by God.
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