Vocabulary Word
Word: dissertation
Definition: formal essay; treatise
Definition: formal essay; treatise
Sentences Containing 'dissertation'
``No; by your brilliant and almost sublime conversation you have elevated me above the ordinary level; we no longer talk, we rise to dissertation.
``I am prejudiced against Beauchamp,''said Albert, drawing Franz away, and leaving the former to finish his philosophical dissertation with Debray.
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