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to retain ideas or information; concerned with obtaining wealth
acquisition
to pronounce distinctly; able to employ language clearly and forcefully
articulate
to work on excessively
belabor
making a logical whole; comprehensible
coherent
a difference of opinion; discontent
dissidence
disorder or confusion; to throw into disorder
disarray
to decorate, adorn, to touch up; to improve by adding detail
embellish
intended for or understood by only a select few
esoteric
appropriate, well-chosen; marked by well-being or good fortune: happy
felicitous
misleading; lacking in or not based on reality
illusory
a peculiarly that serves to distinguish or identify
idiosyncrasy
sharply or bitterly harsh
mordant
a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominate figure in a design
motif
dark and gloomy; lacking in clarity or precision
murky
subtle or slight variation
nuance
open; not hidden
overt
reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy
sophistry
establish with evidence; prove
substantiate
without delay or formality; briefly
summarily
capable of being held or defended.
tenable
found upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
utopian
language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense of content; manner of expression
verbiage
SOAPS
speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, subject
tone
The speaker’s attitude toward thus subject conveyed by the speakers stylistic and rhetorical choices.
exigence
the event or occurrence that prompts rhetorical discourse.
appeal to authority
When an argument is based off someone who has little to no knowledge or authority on the subject. ex. Pantene is the best shampoo because selena gomez said it was.
