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Appeal to Authority

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Persuading without 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 false

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Concession

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An argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent’s point

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Encomium

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A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse glorifying people, objects, ideas, or events

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False Dilemma

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A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) 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

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Expication

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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, modified, or pacified

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Electric

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Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc.

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Opprobrium

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The disgrace incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy

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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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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 characteristics of sophisticated social life in major cities