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Fiction

/fˈɪkʃən/
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(noun) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.
Bob was so beside himself that he could scarcely tell fact from fiction.
CEFR Practice Quiz
I enjoy reading science ____ because it allows me to imagine strange and wonderful worlds in the future.

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