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Special Words #3 Flashcards

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Achilles Heel

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Fatal flaw

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Laconico

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Concise & abrupt; person with few words

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Chimera

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Monster made of different species

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Cupidity

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Greed for money; excessive wealth

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Nemesis

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Greek Goddess of revenge

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Promethean

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Creative, life-changing

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Pygmalion

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Victory w/ a devastating cost

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Saturnine

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Slow to change

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Terpsichorean

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Related to dancing; choreography

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Alpha & Omega

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First & last

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Good Samaritan

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Person who helps others; helps the enemy

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Job

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Faithfulness & patience

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Sodom & Gomorrah

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Corrupt city

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Simon Legree

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Powerful person who’s an asshole

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Svengali

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monster who persuades people to do something in their favor, manipulative

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Boycott

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Uprising to express disapproval

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McCarthyism

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going after someone who’s diff than you (ie. hitler)

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Spartan

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Simple people but brave

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Nostradamus

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Someone who predicted the future

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Bourgeois

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Characteristics of middle class; new money (ie. gatsby)

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Quid Pro Quo

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This for that

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Inductive Reasoning

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Specific to general

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Deductive reasoning

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General to specific

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Rebuttal

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Making a contrary argument or presenting evidence

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Syllogism

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General to specific (ie. i am human. Humans are mortal, therefore i am mortal.

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Refute

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Prove a statement false

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Ad Hominem

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Attacking a man instead of issue (ie Clinton can’t be president because he’s an adulterer

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Begging the question/circular reasoning

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No evidence to support the claim (ie. belief in god is universal because everyone believes in god.)

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Strawman

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Distorting opposing evidence

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Non sequitur

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Off topic

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Red herring

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Distractor, took you off topic

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Slippery slope

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Starts with a little step and suddenly falls (ie. making out to sex)

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Ad populum

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(Alike to bandwagon) everybody is doing it hence you should do it.

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Bandwagon

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Brings appeal & everyone follows

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