elimination

/ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/noun
Middle School
1

The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.

2

The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.

3

The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.

4

The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.

5

The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.

6

The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.

7

The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.

Sound Patterns & Rhymes

Rhymes

Words that share the same ending sound pattern

Alliteration

Words starting with the same consonant sound — used in poetry and prose to create rhythm, emphasis, and memorable phrasing (e.g. “Peter Piper picked”)

Assonance

Words sharing similar vowel sounds regardless of starting letter — creates internal melody in writing

Consonance

Words sharing similar consonant sound patterns — adds texture and cohesion to writing