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| 266483519 | redress | rectify | |
| 266483520 | spurious | false, illegitimate | |
| 266483521 | palliate | lessen severity of | |
| 266483522 | paucity | scarcity | |
| 266483523 | phlegmatic | calm, sluggish | |
| 266483524 | platitude | cliche | |
| 266483525 | profligate | dissolute | |
| 266483526 | laconic | concise, speaking little | |
| 266483527 | largess | generosity | |
| 266483528 | levity | frivolity | |
| 266483529 | lugubrious | gloomy | |
| 266483530 | megalomania | obsession with power, ego | |
| 266483531 | nascent | emerging | |
| 266483532 | nebulous | vague, hazy | |
| 266483533 | nefarious | infamous, wicked | |
| 266483534 | furtive | secretive | |
| 266483535 | germane | relevant | |
| 266483536 | iconoclast | one who attacks convention | |
| 266483537 | idyllic | simple, rustic | |
| 266483538 | inchoate | vague, not thought out | |
| 266483539 | duplicity | deceptiveness | |
| 266483540 | erudite | learned | |
| 266483541 | fatuous | foolish, delusional | |
| 266483542 | fortuitous | happening by chance, luck | |
| 266483543 | fractious | unruly, peevish | |
| 266483544 | complicity | involvement as an accomplice | |
| 266483545 | corpulent | fat | |
| 266483546 | culpable | blameworthy | |
| 266483547 | cursory | performed with haste | |
| 266483548 | debacle | disaster | |
| 266483549 | desultory | random, off the cuff | |
| 266483550 | doleful | sad | |
| 266483551 | au courant | up-to-date, in the loop | |
| 266483552 | austere | stern, somber, ascetic | |
| 266483553 | banal | trite, ordinary, lacking style | |
| 266483554 | cacophony | clashing, dissonant sound | |
| 266483555 | canard | rumor | |
| 266483556 | candor | openness, honesty | |
| 266483557 | chagrin | humiliation, embarassment | |
| 266483558 | cogent | clear-headed, convincing | |
| 266483559 | commodious | spacious, roomy | |
| 266483560 | abstemious | moderate, temperate, non-indulgent | |
| 266483561 | accost | confront | |
| 266483562 | acrimonious | bitter, hostile, and angry | |
| 266483563 | adamant | determined or persistent | |
| 266483564 | adroit | skilled, competent | |
| 266483565 | anathema | something hated, cursed or forbidden | |
| 266483566 | antipathy | ill will, ill feelings | |
| 266483567 | antithesis | opposite | |
| 266483568 | ascetic | self-denying in order to achieve self-discipline | |
| 266483569 | ad hominem attack | attack the person, not the issue | |
| 266483570 | allusion | a reference to something in the past; some suggestion or connection is often implied | |
| 266483571 | argument from ignorance | to assert a proposition is true because it has not been proven false | |
| 266483572 | bandwagon appeal | everyone believes it, so it must be true | |
| 266483573 | false analogy | faulty comparison of two things for effect | |
| 266483574 | poisoning the well | prejudicing an audience against a source ahead of time | |
| 266483575 | red herring | a train of thought that strays from the issue at hand | |
| 266483576 | straw man | a caricature or exaggerated representation of something that someone can thus discredit in an argument | |
| 266483577 | anecdotal evidence | argument from personal observation. frequently unrealiable and over-generalized | |
| 266483578 | euphemism | the use of understatement, either for ironic effect or to "sugarcoat" something | |
| 266483579 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject he is dealing with | |
| 266483580 | arguing by analogy | T.S. Eliot: If the analogy breaks down, the conclusion the arguer is trying to draw from the analogy just doesn't follow. | |
| 266483581 | rhetorical question | a question not meant to be answered but nevertheless designed to advance the speaker's case | |
| 266483582 | parody | a satiric imitation meant to comment on or trivialize something | |
| 266483583 | diction | word choice: the word choice an author makes--the order, rhythm, placement, etc.--can help or inhibit his effect | |
| 266483584 | syntax | sentence structure. writers may vary sentence structure for effect, or they may pay careful attention to the structure and rhythm of a sentence for its effect | |
| 266483585 | innuendo | an indirect, suggestive remark | |
| 266483586 | hyperbole | an exaggeration, for effect or drawing attention | |
| 266483587 | irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: | |
| 266483588 | paradox | a seeming contradiction that contains a profound truth | |
| 266483589 | inference | a conclusion | |
| 266483590 | ethos | the credibility of a source | |
| 266483591 | logos | logical argument | |
| 266483592 | pathos | emotional appeal in an argument | |
| 266483593 | impressionistic writing | recording one's personal impression of an event | |
| 266483594 | melodrama | an obvious or exaggerated appeal to emotion | |
| 266483595 | apologist | an entrenched defender of a certain idea or position | |
| 266483596 | invective | violent denunciation or reproach | |
| 266483597 | anaphora | the repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences. it is to words what alliteration is to sounds. emotional effect | |
| 266483598 | epistrophe | the repition of a word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or sentences. | |
| 266483599 | chiasmus | a balanced, two-part structure in which the terms of the first half are reversed in the second half | |
| 266483600 | asyndeton (no glue) | the absence of normal conjunctions. the effect is often, but not always, a sense of urgency. | |
| 266483601 | polysyndeton (much glue) | the presence of more conjunctions than normal. the effect is usually to lengthen a series, perhaps to make it sound like more than it actually is. | |
| 266483602 | tricolon | a series of three coordinate items in which the greatest or most important is at the end. | |
| 266483603 | tautology | repitition | |
| 266483604 | parallelism | a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses |
