Twelve Flashcards
naivety
the quality or state of being naive; natural or artless simplicity.
periodic sentence
is a stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase.
contempt
the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
naturalists
a person who studies or is an expert in natural history, especially a zoologist or botanist.
coadaptation
the correlation of structural or behavioral characteristics in two or more interacting organisms in a community or organs in an organism resulting from progressive accommodation by natural selection.
kin
a person’s relatives collectively; kinfolk.
hasty generalization
is a conclusion made about all or many instances of a phenomenon, that has been reached on the basis of one or a few instances of that phenomenon. It is an example of jumping to conclusions.
non sequitur
an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.
rebuttal
an act of rebutting, as in a debate.
conciliatory
tending to conciliate
poignant
keenly distressing to the feelings
ominous
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
exasperated
to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely
literary allusion
a passing or casual reference to something, either directly or implied: an allusion to Shakespeare
historical allusion
in literature, an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
