AP Lang. Vocab. 7

Question 1

ubiquitous

Answer 1

present or existing everywhere

Question 2

disabuse

Answer 2

(v.) to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking

Question 3

heretical

Answer 3

violating accepted dogma or convention

Question 4

vililfy

Answer 4

to defame, to characterize harshly

Question 5

dogmatic

Answer 5

expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

Question 6

perennial

Answer 6

(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many years

Question 7

fallacy

Answer 7

erroneous argument dependt upon an unsound or illogical contentior

Question 8

Appeal to Ignorance

Answer 8

A fallacy that uses an opponent’s inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusion’s correctness.

Question 9

Appeal to Popular Opinion

Answer 9

a fallacy based on the premise that the listener should think or act the same way as a substantial group of people

Question 10

Association Fallacy

Answer 10

Sometimes called “guilt by affiliation.” This happens when somebody connects a particular thought or drill to something or somebody negative so as to infer blame on another individual.

Question 11

Attacking the Person

Answer 11

“Ad Hominem” (argument against the man). This is a common fallacy used during debates where an individual substitutes a rebuttal with a personal insult.

Question 12

begging the question

Answer 12

The situation that results when a writer or speaker constructs an argument on an assumption that the audience does not accept.

Question 13

Circular Argument

Answer 13

when an argument takes its evidence from inside the argument itself, instead of an outside source

Question 14

Appeal to authority

Answer 14

known as “argumentum verecundiam” instead of concentrating on the benefits of an argument, the arguer will attempt to append their argument.