Vocab #4 nov 5

Question 1

excess of confidence

Answer 1

hubris

Question 2

useless restatement, saying the same thing twice

Answer 2

tautology

Question 3

uninteresting or insignificant

Answer 3

jejune

Question 4

12 days after Christmas; or divine manifestation

Answer 4

Epiphany

Question 5

daily, ordinary

Answer 5

quotidian

Question 6

edit by omitting bad parts

Answer 6

bowdlerize

Question 7

clarification that someone is actually somone

Answer 7

notarize

Question 8

help out by intervening

Answer 8

intercede

Question 9

cliche; saying that is overused

Answer 9

hackneyed

Question 10

official approval or praise

Answer 10

approbation

Question 11

indirectly making a sexual or hurtful joke

Answer 11

innuendo

Question 12

people who join together for a common cause

Answer 12

coalition

Question 13

bringing about a response; causing a reaction

Answer 13

elicit

Question 14

vacation; break

Answer 14

hiatus

Question 15

someone who holds assets in trust for someone else

Answer 15

fiduciary

Question 16

Restatement

Answer 16

Repeating an idea in a variety of ways

Question 17

Repetition

Answer 17

Restating an idea using the same words

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

Repeating grammatical structures

Question 19

Rhetorical question

Answer 19

Asking a question that’s answer is self-evident, intended to stir emotions or provoke thought

Question 20

Emotional appeal

Answer 20

Speaking to an audiences hopes, fears, likes. And dislikes.

Question 21

Logical appeal

Answer 21

(appeal to reason)

Appealing to an audiences senses of reason

Question 22

Call to action

Answer 22

Language that directly urged the reader to do something

Question 23

Analogy

Answer 23

Comparison that points out how two things are alike

Question 24

Anecdote

Answer 24

A brief story used to make a point