Words to Know #3

Question 1

Analysis

Answer 1

A detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features.

Question 2

Anecdotal Evidence

Answer 2

Evidence in the form of stories that people tell about what has happened to them.

Question 3

Antithesis

Answer 3

The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences.

Question 4

Antithetical Images

Answer 4

Pictures that represent being in direct and unequivocal opposition; directly opposite or opposed.

Question 5

Battlement

Answer 5

A parapet (wall/barrier) with open spaces that surmounts a wall and is used for defense or decoration.

Question 6

Calamitous

Answer 6

Being, causing, or accompanied by a disastrous event marked by great loss, and lasting distress and suffering or a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss.

Question 7

Connotation

Answer 7

Something suggested by a word or thing apart from what it explicitly names or describes.

Question 8

Deduction

Answer 8

Inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general or universal premises. General to Specific.

Question 9

Denotation

Answer 9

A direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea.

Question 10

Description

Answer 10

Discourse intended to give a mental image of something experienced. A statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or something.

Question 11

Despotism

Answer 11

Oppressive absolute power and authority exerted by government. A system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.

Question 12

Dichotomy

Answer 12

A division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities. Something with seemingly contradictory qualities.

Question 13

Diction

Answer 13

Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

Question 14

Draught

Answer 14

(Old Writing) British spelling of draft, meaning drawing in a net, act of drinking/inhaling, moving loads, or selecting an individual.

Question 15

Ethos

Answer 15

The distinguishing character, sentient, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution.

Question 16

Expository

Answer 16

Of, relating to, or containing a setting forth of the meaning or purpose or a discourse or example of it designed to convey information or explain what’s difficult to understand.

Question 17

Feebleminded

Answer 17

Impaired in intellectual ability; affected with intellectual disability. Foolish.

Question 18

Homer Simpson

Answer 18

A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.

Question 19

Induction

Answer 19

Inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances. The act of bringing forward or adducing something (facts or particulars). Specific to general.

Question 20

Inversion

Answer 20

A reversal of position, order, for, or relationship such as a change in normal word order.

Question 21

Irony

Answer 21

The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected result.

Question 22

Litigious

Answer 22

Prone to engage in lawsuits or prone to the act of settling a dispute in a court of law. Likely to cause disagreement or argument.

Question 23

Logos

Answer 23

The divine wisdom manifests in the creation, government, and redemption of the world. To appeal to the audiences’ sense of reason or logic.

Question 24

Matrix

Answer 24

Something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form. A main clause that contains a subordinate clause.

Question 25

Medici

Answer 25

Name of a family of rich, powerful bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscnay in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

Question 26

Narration

Answer 26

The act or process or an instance of telling a story in detail or to provide spoken commentary.

Question 27

Oblivion

Answer 27

The fact or condition of not remembering; a state marked by lack of awareness or consciousness. The condition or state of being forgotten or unknown.

Question 28

Obscure

Answer 28

Dark, dim; shrouded in or hidden by darkness. Not really understood or clearly expressed. To reduce (a vowel) to the value \e.

Question 29

Paradox

Answer 29

A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
Ex. Save money by spending it.

Question 30

Parallel Structure

Answer 30

Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
Ex. Ellen likes hiking, attending the rodeo, and taking afternoon naps.

Question 31

Parenthetical Comment

Answer 31

A phrase that isn’t essential to the rest of the sentence. Present the opinion of the writer and takes the reader away from the normal flow of the text.

Question 32

Pathos

Answer 32

An element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity of compassion.

Question 33

Patrix

Answer 33

A pattern or die used in typefounding to form a matrix.

Question 34

Periodic Sentence

Answer 34

A usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause.
Ex. With low taxes, beautiful views, and a mild climate, this city is a great place to live.
(Details then main point)

Question 35

Process

Answer 35

A natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a result. A series of actions or operations conducing to an end. Something going on.

Question 36

Prodigious

Answer 36

Causing amazement or wonder. Extraordinary in bulk, quantity or degree.

Question 37

Reportorial

Answer 37

A person who makes authorized statements of law decisions or legislative proceedings. A person who makes a shorthand recond of a speech or proceeding.

Question 38

Resonate

Answer 38

To relate harmoniously; strike a chord. A vibration. The enhancement of an atomic, nucleus, or particle reaction. Relationship between two celestial bodies.

Question 39

Spatial Organization

Answer 39

Arranges information according to how things fit together in physical space; where one thing exists in relation to another.

Question 40

Squalid

Answer 40

Marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty.

Question 41

Syntax

Answer 41

The way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses).