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Meetings of Opposites                   Curriculum Packet

Opposite:  1. Set over against, facing.  2. Contrarily turned or moving.  3. Opposed or hostile 4. Diametrically different, contrary, repugnant, antagonistic. 5. [Bot.] Situated in pairs on an axis, as leaves.

Opposition:   3. That which opposes; an obstacle; the aggregate of those opposing; in politics, the party opposed to the party in power.  4. [the earliest sense in English]  the situation of a celestial body with respect to another;  esp. such position of a planet or satellite with respect to the sun – signified by the symbol ∞;  as ∞ 4 ©, opposition of Jupiter to the Sun. (OED)

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