Words to Know #3 Flashcards
Analysis
A detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features.
Anecdotal Evidence
Evidence in the form of stories that people tell about what has happened to them.
Antithesis
The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences.
Antithetical Images
Pictures that represent being in direct and unequivocal opposition; directly opposite or opposed.
Battlement
A parapet (wall/barrier) with open spaces that surmounts a wall and is used for defense or decoration.
Calamitous
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.
Connotation
Something suggested by a word or thing apart from what it explicitly names or describes.
Deduction
Inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general or universal premises. General to Specific.
Denotation
A direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea.
Description
Discourse intended to give a mental image of something experienced. A statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or something.
Despotism
Oppressive absolute power and authority exerted by government. A system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.
Dichotomy
A division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities. Something with seemingly contradictory qualities.
Diction
Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.
Draught
(Old Writing) British spelling of draft, meaning drawing in a net, act of drinking/inhaling, moving loads, or selecting an individual.
Ethos
The distinguishing character, sentient, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution.
Expository
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.
Feebleminded
Impaired in intellectual ability; affected with intellectual disability. Foolish.
Homer Simpson
A person who is foolish, easily distracted, and/or gluttonous.
Induction
Inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances. The act of bringing forward or adducing something (facts or particulars). Specific to general.
Inversion
A reversal of position, order, for, or relationship such as a change in normal word order.
Irony
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.
Litigious
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.
Logos
The divine wisdom manifests in the creation, government, and redemption of the world. To appeal to the audiences’ sense of reason or logic.
Matrix
Something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form. A main clause that contains a subordinate clause.
Medici
Name of a family of rich, powerful bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscnay in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.
Narration
The act or process or an instance of telling a story in detail or to provide spoken commentary.
Oblivion
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.
Obscure
Dark, dim; shrouded in or hidden by darkness. Not really understood or clearly expressed. To reduce (a vowel) to the value \e.
Paradox
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
Ex. Save money by spending it.
Parallel Structure
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.
Parenthetical Comment
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.
Pathos
An element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity of compassion.
Patrix
A pattern or die used in typefounding to form a matrix.
Periodic Sentence
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)
Process
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.
Prodigious
Causing amazement or wonder. Extraordinary in bulk, quantity or degree.
Reportorial
A person who makes authorized statements of law decisions or legislative proceedings. A person who makes a shorthand recond of a speech or proceeding.
Resonate
To relate harmoniously; strike a chord. A vibration. The enhancement of an atomic, nucleus, or particle reaction. Relationship between two celestial bodies.
Spatial Organization
Arranges information according to how things fit together in physical space; where one thing exists in relation to another.
Squalid
Marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty.
Syntax
The way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses).
