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Nov 30, 2009
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syn•e•sis



Pronunciation: (sin'u-sis), [key]
n. Gram.
a construction in which an expected grammatical agreement in form is replaced by an agreement in meaning, as in The crowd rose to their feet, where a plural pronoun is used to refer to a singular noun.

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