121-140 Flashcards

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Appeal to Authority

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A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution

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Appeal to Ignorance

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A fallacy based on the assumption that a statement must be true if it cannot be proved fake

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Concession

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An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or a writer acknowledges the validity of an opponents point

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Encomium

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A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse qualifying people, objects, or events

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False Dilemma

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A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options when in fact more options are available

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Running Style

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Sentence style that appears to follow the mind as it worries a problem through, mimicking the “rambling, associative syntax of conversation - the opposite of periodic sentence style

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Explication

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An explanation, interpretation

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Imperative tone/sentence

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commanding

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Interrogative

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questioning

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Exclamatory

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Expressing enthusiasm or excitement

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Declarative

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declaring a statement or fact

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Infinitives

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“to be” verbs…“to come”, “to show”, “to dance”

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Implacable

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not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified, inexorable mitigate-to become miller, lesson in severity

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Eclectic

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not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc. but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems

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Aberrant

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deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type, exceptional abnormal

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Stymie

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to hinder, block, or thwart

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Opprobrium

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The disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful

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Nascent

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beginning to exist or develop

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Avarice

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insatiable greed for riches, inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth

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Urbane

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having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophistication social life in major cities: an urban manner. Reflecting elegance