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| 5936848651 | forte | one's strong point; area of expertise; talent | 0 | |
| 5936849844 | detest | to hate | 1 | |
| 5936850644 | clique | small exclusive group | 2 | |
| 5936851091 | matriarch | female ruler or mother in authority | 3 | |
| 5936851511 | adroit | skillful; talented; proficient | 4 | |
| 5936854954 | scrutinize | to examine closely | 5 | |
| 5936855398 | chaos | total discord; confusion | 6 | |
| 5936855707 | pensive | thoughtful; thinking deeply | 7 | |
| 5936856326 | vacillate | to sway or waiver; to fluctuate | 8 | |
| 5936856805 | purge | to purify | 9 | |
| 5936857369 | amicable | friendly; peaceful | 10 | |
| 5936858001 | naivete | the state of innocence; simple unawareness | 11 | |
| 5936858377 | elude | to avoid or escape | 12 | |
| 5936858717 | copious | plentiful; abundant; excessive | 13 | |
| 5936859164 | frugal | thrifty; cheap; economical | 14 | |
| 5936859611 | affinity | attraction | 15 | |
| 5936859981 | precarious | dangerous; risky; uncertain | 16 | |
| 5936860629 | parity | equality in condition or value | 17 | |
| 5936861204 | opulent | very wealthy | 18 | |
| 5936861596 | stringent | stern; severe; austere | 19 | |
| 5936862094 | epitome | perfect example | 20 | |
| 5936862429 | ostracize | cast out; exclude; banish | 21 | |
| 5936863154 | relinquish | give up; surrender; capitulate | 22 | |
| 5936863633 | omnipotent | all-powerful | 23 | |
| 5936868184 | exasperate | irritate; annoy | 24 | |
| 5936868590 | bevy | small group of girls or birds | 25 | |
| 5936868824 | trepidation | fear; apprehension | 26 | |
| 5936869107 | adept | proficient; adroit; talented | 27 | |
| 5936870037 | ribald | coarse joking; rude | 28 | |
| 5936871500 | ostentation | showy; fancy; guady | 29 | |
| 5936872093 | annihilate | totally destroy; eradicate | 30 | |
| 5936872469 | mollify | appease; clam down; soothe | 31 | |
| 5936872775 | nemesis | archenemy; arch rival | 32 | |
| 5936874090 | pessimism | fatal outlook (ex. Murphy's Law) | 33 | |
| 5936874617 | indigent | poor; impoverished; destitute | 34 | |
| 5936878564 | adament | unyielding; firm; hard; flexible | 35 | |
| 5936879429 | optimism | positive outlook | 36 | |
| 5936879733 | impeccable | faultless; without error; flawless | 37 | |
| 5936880054 | paramount | ranking highly (eminent) | 38 | |
| 5936880660 | seclusion | to be in isolation; privacy | 39 | |
| 5936880932 | utopian | perfect; ideal | 40 | |
| 5936881250 | novice | beginner | 41 | |
| 5936881468 | havoc | great destruction/ devastaton | 42 | |
| 5936882097 | lethargic | sluggish; no energy; apathetic; blase; languid | 43 | |
| 5936882692 | exodus | going out; going forth; departure | 44 | |
| 5936883787 | excruciating | agonizing; intensely painful | 45 | |
| 5936884560 | alleviate | to make easier; to lessen | 46 | |
| 5936885181 | flippant | frivolous; disrespectful | 47 | |
| 5936886303 | clandestine | secret; hidden | 48 | |
| 5936886566 | pompous | pretentious; arrogant; vain | 49 | |
| 5936886889 | mentor | teacher; tutor; coach; trusted counselor | 50 | |
| 5936889800 | ethos | Greek for "character," speakers appeal to this to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic | 51 | |
| 5936893611 | logos | Greek for "embodied thought," speakers appeal to reason by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up | 52 | |
| 5936900994 | pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experience," speakers appeal to this to emotionally motivate their audience | 53 | |
| 5936902773 | propaganda | the spread of ideas and information to further a cause | 54 | |
| 5936903312 | persona | Greek for "mask," the face or character that a speaker shows to his or he audience | 55 | |
| 5936904294 | rhetoric | the art of finding ways to persuade an audience | 56 | |
| 5936905418 | rhetorical triangle (Aristotelian triangle) | a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text | 57 | |
| 5936906114 | antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 58 | |
| 5936907033 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 59 | |
| 5936907943 | anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 60 | |
| 5936908640 | metaphor | figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 61 | |
| 5936911221 | oxymoron | paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 62 | |
| 5936912051 | imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin | 63 | |
| 5936914321 | synecdoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 64 | |
| 5936915385 | parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 65 | |
| 5936918131 | personification | attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 66 | |
| 5936918958 | ad hominem | this fallacy means "to the man" in Latin, it is a specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker | 67 | |
| 5936922487 | begging the question | a fallacy in which the claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt | 68 | |
| 5936925011 | appeal to false authority | this fallacy occurs when someone who has not expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority | 69 | |
| 5936925860 | deduction | the logical process whereby one reaches a conclusion starting with a general principle or universal truth (a major premise) and applying it to a specific case (a minor premise) | 70 | |
| 5936927379 | closed thesis | a statement or the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make | 71 | |
| 5936931965 | claim | also called an assertion or proposition, the states the argument, main idea, or position | 72 | |
| 5936934463 | induction | a logical process whereby the writer reasons from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion | 73 | |
| 5936936369 | faulty analogy | a fallacy that occurs when two things are compared that are not comparable | 74 |
