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   adjunct

   /ˈadʒʌŋ(k)t/

   noun

   • 1. a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part: "computer technology is an adjunct to learning"
   • ▪ a person who is another's assistant or subordinate: "a talented adjunct desperately grabbing at officer status"
   • 2. a word or phrase that constitutes an optional element or is considered of secondary importance in a sentence, for example on the table in we left some flowers on the table.
   • ▪ (in systemic grammar) an obligatory or optional adverbial functioning as a constituent of clause structure.

   adjective

   • 1. connected or added to something: "other adjunct therapies include immunotherapy"
   • ▪ (of an academic post) attached to the staff of a university in a temporary or assistant capacity: "an adjunct professor of entomology"

   Word Origin early 16th century (as an adjective meaning ‘joined on, subordinate’): from Latin adjunctus, past participle of adjungere (see adjoin).

   Scrabble Points: 17

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