LAST ROUND: WORDS Flashcards
IN WHICH CONTEXT DOES THE WORD SYLLOGISM MAKE THE MOST SENSE TO ME
I would use the word to describe the logical process. E.g because a circle is round and wheels are circles they make good shapes for movement on cars.
He always uses syllogisms to explain what he is saying.
Defined: Deductive reasoning as distinct from inductive reasoning e.g. Logic is rules or syllogisms
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Ermine
I’ll use it to describe that white fur coat trim with black dots commonly seen worn by kings or queens.
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FOUNDER
He is a founder because he manufactures articles of cast metal.
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MIASMA
To describe my children’s breath in the morning:
A highly unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapor
Josie’s breath was a potent miasma
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SIMULACRUM
The word means:
An image or representation of someone or something e.g.
A small scale simulacrum of a skyscraper
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APOTHEOSIS
The word means the highest point in the development of something.
The apotheosis of my career was when I completed my doctorate
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CORPULENT
The word means fat:
If I don’t work out I could become corpulent
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LEPORINE
The word means of or resembling a hare:
Many creatures in fantasy novels have leporine characteristics
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CLOY
It means to disgust or sicken someone with an excessive sweetness, richness or sentiment:
He cloyingly tried to woe her with his poetry
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CARAVANSARY
This is an inn in North Africa or Asia that has a central courtyard.
She stayed in a moroccon caravansary where she lay listening to the central water fountain as it spoke of the mysteries of the desert
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PAVONINE
Of or like a peacock:
Leyli delivered her speech with cloying sentiment as she waved her arms with poorly timed pavonine flutter
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DIAPHANOUS
Adjective describing (especially) fabric that is light translucent and delicate
The candy floss floated into the air transecting a beam of gold light exposing the diaphanous pink soon to be devoured fluff
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TRITE
Trite means hackneyed or uninteresting due to over use:
When I was sick family and friends would speak and everything…was predictable and felt completely and intensely so, to be trite.
A depressed mind finds everything monotonous and trite
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recidivism
the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
“the prison has succeeded in reducing recidivism”
I’m touched by prison policies in countries such as Sweden see documentary by the guy who made bowling for Columbine. In which they have kind genuine empowering and humane programs to reduce recidivism - only love and forgiveness truly work.
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Ribald
referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way.
“a ribald comment”
