Words to Know #4

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers. An absolute standard or principle.

Question 2

Accouterment

Answer 2

A soldier’s outfit usually not including clothes and weapons. An identifying and often superficial characteristic or device.

Question 3

Acerbic

Answer 3

Sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in temper, mood, or tone.

Question 4

Appeal to ignorance

Answer 4

This fallacy occurs when you argue that your conclusion must be true, because there is no evidence against it.

Question 5

Barbarism

Answer 5

The practice or display of relating to a land, culture, or people alien and believed to be inferior to another land, culture, or people.

Question 6

Bewilderment

Answer 6

The quality or state of being lost, perplexed, or confused.

Question 7

Classification writing

Answer 7

A method of essay development in which a writer arranges people, objects, or ideas with shared characteristic into groups or categories.

Question 8

Congenital

Answer 8

Existing at or dating from birth. Being such by nature.

Question 9

Cower

Answer 9

To shriek away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays.

Question 10

Cynical

Answer 10

Contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives. Based on or reflecting a belief that human conduct is motivated by self-interest.

Question 11

Deductive reasoning

Answer 11

A logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple remises that are generally assumed to be true. General to Specific.

Question 12

Description writing

Answer 12

To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader’s mind.

Question 13

Didactic

Answer 13

Designed or intended to teach. Making moral observations; intended to teach proper or moral behavior.

Question 14

Emphatic

Answer 14

Tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action. A force or intensity of expression that gives impressiveness or importance. Do followed without to.

Question 15

Exoticism

Answer 15

The quality or state or being strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual.

Question 16

Franchise

Answer 16

The right or license granted to an individual or group to market a company’s goods or services in a particular territory. Freedom or immunity from some burden or restriction.

Question 17

Imperative

Answer 17

Not to be avoided or evaded. Relating to or constituting the grammatical mood that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another.

Question 18

Indignation

Answer 18

Anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean.

Question 19

Inductive Reasoning

Answer 19

A logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion. Specific to General.

Question 20

Innovative symbols

Answer 20

Those which result from the reassignment of social meaning to an existing product.

Question 21

Intones

Answer 21

To utter in musical or prolonged tunes. To utter something in singing tunes or in a monotone.

Question 22

Linguistic paradox

Answer 22

A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.

Question 23

Medieval

Answer 23

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Middle Ages (The period of European history from a.d. 500 to about 1500). Extremely outmoded or antiquated.

Question 24

Methodological

Answer 24

Of, or relating to, a body of methods, rules, and postulates employes by a discipline; a particular procedure or set of procedures.

Question 25

Metrics

Answer 25

A part of prosody (system) that deals with metrical structure. A standard of measurement.

Question 26

Orientalism

Answer 26

A scholarship, learning, or study in Asian subjects or languages. Something associated with or characteristic of Asia or Asians.

Question 27

Polemic

Answer 27

An aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another. The art of practice of disputation or controversy.

Question 28

Puritanical

Answer 28

Of, relating to, or characterizes by a rigid morality.

Question 29

Quandary

Answer 29

A state of perplexity or doubt.

Question 30

Rebuttal

Answer 30

The act of contradicting or opposing by formal legal argument, plea, or countervailing proof.

Question 31

Rhetorical strategies

Answer 31

Words or word phrases that are used to convey meaning, provoke a response from a listener or reader to persuade during communication.

Question 32

Rigor

Answer 32

Harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment. Strict precision.

Question 33

Sovereign

Answer 33

One possessing or held to possess supreme political power or supreme power.

Question 34

Strenuous

Answer 34

Vigorously active. Marked by or calling for energy or stamina.

Question 35

Substantiates

Answer 35

To establish by proof or competent evidence. To give characteristic or quality.

Question 36

Tenuous

Answer 36

Having little sustenance or strength; flimsy, weak.

Question 37

Treatise

Answer 37

A systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached.

Question 38

Uniformity

Answer 38

The quality or state of being in the same form, manner, or degree, or consistent in conduct or opinion.

Question 39

Unusual paradoxes

Answer 39

A situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts. Ex. The ice is hot.

Question 40

Vituperative

Answer 40

Uttering or given to censure; containing or characterized by verbal abuse.

Question 41

Vulnerable

Answer 41

Capable of being physically or emotionally wounded. Open to attack or damage.