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    Does the sentence contradict what is said in the previous paragraph?
    contradict = disagree with
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    Four doesn't contradict me.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement
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    Tim didn't bother to contradict him.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement with
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    A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.  (source)
    contradiction = something that seems inconsistent with something else
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    She was frowning at Xenophilius, but she did not contradict him.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement
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    THE CONTRADICTORY POLITICS OF ALEX STEINER Point One: He was a member of the Nazi Party, but he did not hate the Jews, or anyone else for that matter.  (source)
    CONTRADICTORY = conflicting (seeming inconsistent)
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    I hated this part of the day because everything about it contradicted my other life.  (source)
    contradicted = was in conflict with
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    But there was never a shortage of apparent contradictions in the relationship between Chris and his parents.  (source)
    contradictions = things that seemingly disagree with themselves
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    "I wasn't given military orders," Watanabe said, contradicting the assertion he'd made in the 1995 interview.  (source)
    contradicting = denying
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    "It isn't any use to the Kaiser either. He has everything he can want already." "I'm not so sure about that," contradicts Kat, "he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous."  (source)
    contradicts = disagrees
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    Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live.†  (source)
    uncontradicted = not disagreed with
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontradicted means not and reverses the meaning of contradicted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    That his excessive human interest in the new place was entirely of Sue's making, while at the same time Sue was to be regarded even less than formerly as proper to create it, had an ethical contradictoriness to which he was not blind.†  (source)
    contradictoriness = the quality of disagreeing
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    If he Vote it shall not be borrowed, or be absent, yet because in lending, he voteth the borrowing, he contradicteth his former Vote, and is obliged by the later, and becomes both borrower and lender, and consequently cannot demand payment from any particular man, but from the common Treasure onely;†  (source)
    contradicteth = disagrees
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She contradicteth" in older English, today we say "She contradicts."
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