plagiarism

Day 16Level 2

PLEY-juh-riz-uhm

piracy

taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas

Part of Speech: noun

Synonyms:

falsification, infringement, piracy

Example Sentence:

She was accused of plagiarism in her novel which won many awards.

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