Vocabulary Week 2

Question 0

Lucid:

Answer 0

Easily understood; clear

Question 1

Implication:

Answer 1

The act of suggesting or hinting

Question 2

Rhetoric:

Answer 2

The art of using language effectively and persuasively

Question 3

Arbiter:

Answer 3

A judge who decides a disputed issue

Question 4

Biased:

Answer 4

Prejudiced

Question 5

Exculpate:

Answer 5

To free from guilt or blame

Question 6

Impartial:

Answer 6

Not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased

Question 7

Incontrovertible:

Answer 7

Not able to be denied or disputed

Question 8

Integrity:

Answer 8

Trustworthiness; completeness

Question 9

Objectivity:

Answer 9

Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices

Question 10

Anastrophe:

Answer 10

Changing the object, subject, and verb order in a clause

Question 11

Anticlimax:

Answer 11

An abrupt descent on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of idea which he appeared to be aiming at

Question 12

Antanaclasis:

Answer 12

Repetition of a single word, but with different meanings

Question 13

Anthimeria:

Answer 13

Transformation of a word of a certain word class to another word class(verb-noun)

Question 14

Antimetabole:

Answer 14

A sentence consisting of the repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse order

Question 15

Antirrhesis:

Answer 15

Disproving of an opponent’s argument