Words to Know #4 Flashcards
Absolutism
A political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers. An absolute standard or principle.
Accouterment
A soldier’s outfit usually not including clothes and weapons. An identifying and often superficial characteristic or device.
Acerbic
Sharply or bitingly critical, sarcastic, or ironic in temper, mood, or tone.
Appeal to ignorance
This fallacy occurs when you argue that your conclusion must be true, because there is no evidence against it.
Barbarism
The practice or display of relating to a land, culture, or people alien and believed to be inferior to another land, culture, or people.
Bewilderment
The quality or state of being lost, perplexed, or confused.
Classification writing
A method of essay development in which a writer arranges people, objects, or ideas with shared characteristic into groups or categories.
Congenital
Existing at or dating from birth. Being such by nature.
Cower
To shriek away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays.
Cynical
Contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives. Based on or reflecting a belief that human conduct is motivated by self-interest.
Deductive reasoning
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.
Description writing
To describe a person, place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader’s mind.
Didactic
Designed or intended to teach. Making moral observations; intended to teach proper or moral behavior.
Emphatic
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.
Exoticism
The quality or state or being strikingly, excitingly, or mysteriously different or unusual.
Franchise
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.
Imperative
Not to be avoided or evaded. Relating to or constituting the grammatical mood that expresses the will to influence the behavior of another.
Indignation
Anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean.
Inductive Reasoning
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.
Innovative symbols
Those which result from the reassignment of social meaning to an existing product.
Intones
To utter in musical or prolonged tunes. To utter something in singing tunes or in a monotone.
Linguistic paradox
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
Medieval
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.
Methodological
Of, or relating to, a body of methods, rules, and postulates employes by a discipline; a particular procedure or set of procedures.
Metrics
A part of prosody (system) that deals with metrical structure. A standard of measurement.
Orientalism
A scholarship, learning, or study in Asian subjects or languages. Something associated with or characteristic of Asia or Asians.
Polemic
An aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another. The art of practice of disputation or controversy.
Puritanical
Of, relating to, or characterizes by a rigid morality.
Quandary
A state of perplexity or doubt.
Rebuttal
The act of contradicting or opposing by formal legal argument, plea, or countervailing proof.
Rhetorical strategies
Words or word phrases that are used to convey meaning, provoke a response from a listener or reader to persuade during communication.
Rigor
Harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment. Strict precision.
Sovereign
One possessing or held to possess supreme political power or supreme power.
Strenuous
Vigorously active. Marked by or calling for energy or stamina.
Substantiates
To establish by proof or competent evidence. To give characteristic or quality.
Tenuous
Having little sustenance or strength; flimsy, weak.
Treatise
A systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached.
Uniformity
The quality or state of being in the same form, manner, or degree, or consistent in conduct or opinion.
Unusual paradoxes
A situation or statement that seems impossible or is difficult to understand because it contains two opposite facts. Ex. The ice is hot.
Vituperative
Uttering or given to censure; containing or characterized by verbal abuse.
Vulnerable
Capable of being physically or emotionally wounded. Open to attack or damage.
