Ap vocabulary 120-158

Question 1

appeal to the authority

Answer 1

fallacy in which instead of appealing to evidence the writer appeals to famous person/ authorities

Question 2

appeal to ignorance

Answer 2

assumption that a stamens must be true if it isn’t prove as false

Question 3

concession

Answer 3

writer acknowledge the validity of an opponent point

Question 4

Encomium

Answer 4

tribute/eulogy in prose or verse glorifying

Question 5

false dilemma

Answer 5

oversimplification that offers a limited number of options even if there are more available

Question 6

running style

Answer 6

it is a sentence style that appears to follow the mind as it worries a problem through, mimicking the “rambling, associative syntax of conversation”

Question 7

explication

Answer 7

explanation

Question 8

imperative tone sentence

Answer 8

commanding

Question 9

interrogative

Answer 9

questioning

Question 10

explanatory

Answer 10

expressing enthusiasm or excitement

Question 11

declarative

Answer 11

declaring a status or fact

Question 12

infinitive

Answer 12

“to be”verbs

Question 13

implacable

Answer 13

not to be arrested

Question 14

electric

Answer 14

not following only one system

Question 15

aberrant

Answer 15

deviation from ordinary

Question 16

stymie

Answer 16

to block, obstacle

Question 17

nascent

Answer 17

beginning to develop

Question 18

avarice

Answer 18

insatiable greed

Question 19

urbane

Answer 19

having the characteristic that we can find in the major cities

Question 20

onerous

Answer 20

oppressive or troublesome

Question 21

discretion

Answer 21

caution/reserve in speech

Question 22

burgeon

Answer 22

verb to grow rapidly and flourish

Question 23

axiom

Answer 23

universally recognized principle

Question 24

ubiquitous

Answer 24

existing everywhere at the same moment

Question 25

disabuse

Answer 25

to free from error, misconception, or fallacy

Question 26

heretical

Answer 26

violating accepted dogma

Question 27

vivify

Answer 27

to define, characterized hardly

Question 28

dogmatic

Answer 28

expressing a rigid opinion

Question 29

perennial

Answer 29

recurrent trough the years

Question 30

fallacy

Answer 30

erroneous argument dependent upon illogical contention

Question 31

appeal to popular opinion

Answer 31

it is making an argument that something is the right or correct thing to do because a lot of people agree with doing it. This type of fallacy is also called bandwagon.

Question 32

association fallacy

Answer 32

it is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty-generalization or red-herring type and which asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another.

Question 33

begging the question

Answer 33

claim that has as evidence a restatement of the claim

Question 34

circular reasoning

Answer 34

it is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. The components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.