2021 Apr Flashcards
Pleonasm
The use of more words than are necessary
E.g.,
Black darkness
Accoutrement
Additional items of dress or equipment worn for special occasions
Chicanery
Trickery
Buttress
A prop or safeguard
Buttressed
Fortified
Cogent
Convincing
Cassandra
A prophet of disaster
Pandowdy
A kind of spiced apple pie fried in a deep dish
Ratel
A honey badger
Quiddity
The inherent nature of essence of someone
Coda
The concluding passage of a piece of statement
Dyspeptic
Bad-tempered
Cognoscente
A connoisseur
Schuss
SHUU-S
A straight downhill run on skis
Theodolite
A surveying instrument with a rotating telescope for measuring horizontal and vertical angles
Veblen
Describes a good which experiences a high demand after use
Ad hominem
Relating to an argument directed against a person instead of the issues being discussed
Miscegenation
Interracial breeding