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5984802707Provocative dictionDiction of our choice of words. The purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a theoretical argument.0
5984802708ClassificationThe action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics1
5984802709UnderstatementEx: You won 10 million dollars in the lottery and when you tell a news reporter "I am delighted", you are making an understatement. Trying to decrease the intensity of the loss. Opposite of hyperbole2
5984802710Colorful dictionDiction in your conscious choice of words as a writer3
5984802711Counter argumentAn argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument4
5984802712ClaimSomeone gives an argument to support his/her position; they are making a claim5

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