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| 6772654605 | Qualification/Qualify | A limitation placed on a position/argument so as to avoid an absolute claim | 0 | |
| 6772704479 | Empirical Data | Information acquired by observation or experimentation; its concrete and measurable; typically serves as good support for a claim | 1 | |
| 6772725828 | Venacular | the language spoken by people who live in a particular locality | 2 | |
| 6772739120 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing which gives a work a conversational familiar tone | 3 | |
| 6772763326 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for an unpleasant term | 4 | |
| 6772788382 | Antithisis | balancing or contrasting one word or idea against another and usually in the same sentance | 5 | |
| 6772800542 | Bias | prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject/issue | 6 | |
| 6772818389 | Satire | a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule | 7 | |
| 6772832507 | Parody | a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect or ridicule | 8 | |
| 6772854034 | Digression | the act of departing from the main subject in speech or writing to discuss an apparently related topic | 9 | |
| 6773276411 | Understatement | lack of emphisis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect | 10 | |
| 6773309457 | paradox/paradoxical | a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity | 11 | |
| 6773364181 | Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun; anything that comes before something else | 12 | |
| 6773384190 | Didactic | a term describing works that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing (sometimes too much), especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles | 13 | |
| 6773414164 | Enumerate | to mention separately as if in one counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list | 14 | |
| 6773421021 | Conjecture | to form an opinion (to conclude or suppose some ideas) based on insufficient or unreliable evidence; to guess. | 15 | |
| 6773432905 | Generalist | a person who is (or aims to be) knowledgeable in many fields of a study, as opposed to the specialist | 16 | |
| 6773454245 | Treatise | a formal work on a particular subject, especially one that details systematically with its principles and conclusions; tends to be longer and more detailed than an essay | 17 | |
| 6803574456 | expose | bringing a scandal, crime, ect. to public notice | 18 | |
| 6803593902 | generalize/generalization | to infer or form a conclusion/opinion from available information | 19 | |
| 6803615374 | exposition/expository | writing or speech intended to convey information or to explain | 20 | |
| 6803632692 | incite | to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action | 21 | |
| 6803652042 | apology | a defense, excuse, or justification in speech or writing, as for a belief, idea, cause, doctrine, ect. | 22 | |
| 6803696107 | diatribe | a speech or piece of writing that features a bitter or violent criticism or attack | 23 | |
| 6803717301 | ephemeral | lasting a very short time; short-lived | 24 | |
| 6803724200 | resigned/resignation | an accepting unresisting attitude; passive compliance | 25 | |
| 6804244626 | introspection | observation/examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, ect.; the act of looking inside one's self | 26 | |
| 6804300466 | phenominon | a fact, occurrence, or circumstance that is observed or observable | 27 | |
| 6804311245 | betray | to reveal, show, disclose | 28 | |
| 6804322922 | objective | based on facts; unbiased; not influenced by personal feelings, interpretation, or prejudice | 29 | |
| 6804353660 | subjective | based on an individual's thinking, feelings, interpretation, prejudice, ect..; not objective | 30 | |
| 6804396571 | dispassionate | devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm | 31 | |
| 6804424545 | disparage | to speak contemptuously of; to belittle; to damage the reputation of | 32 | |
| 6804438102 | validate/substinate | to confirm | 33 | |
| 6804442914 | erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly | 34 | |
| 6804467501 | pragmatic/pragmatism | of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerationdd | 35 | |
| 6804483519 | exhort/exhortation | to urge, advise, or caution earnestly | 36 | |
| 6804499018 | syllogism (deductive reasoning) | starting with a universally accepted general assumption/truth and then observing a more specific example in light of that assumption/truth in order to arrive at some conclusion about that specific example | 37 | |
| 6804538283 | inductive reasoning | compiling a collection of examples or observations and then arriving at a general conclusion based on criteria shared by those examples/observations | 38 | |
| 6804562600 | analogy | a similarity or comparison between two things or the relationship between them; compares to similar thins unlike a metahor | 39 | |
| 6804585988 | denotation | the literal dictionary definition of a word; devoid of any emotion or attitude | 40 | |
| 6804596911 | connotation | the non literal, associative meaning of a word, the implied, suggested meaning | 41 | |
| 6804614080 | oxymoron | the joining of apparently contradictory words to suggest a paradox | 42 | |
| 6804625231 | periodic sentence | a sentence in which the base clause is placed at the end of the sentence and is preceded by introductory dependent clauses and phrases | 43 | |
| 6804653259 | irony | the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant | 44 | |
| 6804660833 | aphorism | a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle | 45 | |
| 6804670952 | pedantic | excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning | 46 | |
| 6804682179 | anaphora | the repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive clauses | 47 | |
| 6804693700 | archaic diction | the use of words common to an earlier time period | 48 | |
| 6804699337 | allegory | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 49 |
