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| 7301327855 | rhetoric | all of the means of persuasion |  | 0 |
| 7301330646 | exigence | context (circumstance surrounding the text) | 1 | |
| 7301332015 | narration | to explain information about your topic as a series of events in a story format | 2 | |
| 7437625293 | description | to create a picture in words to help readers visualize something a writer has seen, heard, or done | 3 | |
| 7437638613 | process analysis | to explain a process by giving directions or information about how to do something | 4 | |
| 7437645493 | exemplification | (illustration); to discuss a topic by using examples to clarify points | 5 | |
| 7437653646 | comparison/contrast | to show how two or more areas of your topic are similar, different, or both |  | 6 |
| 7437663766 | classification/division | to break topic into groups of categories & explain the separation |  | 7 |
| 7437676638 | definition | to define a word/concept about your topic using synonyms, essential definitions, or extended definitions | 8 | |
| 7437709829 | cause/effect | to explain what caused something to happen in a specific topic | 9 | |
| 7437717738 | empirical | based on observation/experience rather than theory/logic | 10 | |
| 7437726058 | indubitably | unquestionable |  | 11 |
| 7541520441 | didactic | used to teach or moralize |  | 12 |
| 7541520442 | acrimonious | bitter or angry |  | 13 |
| 7591873460 | circumlocution | use of many words when fewer would do | 14 | |
| 7591877274 | inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent | 15 | |
| 7664190639 | platitude | a remark or statement with a moral content that has been overused (which causes it to lack interest or thought) | 16 | |
| 7664213678 | incendiary | designed to cause fires, metaphorically (used as a tone word) | 17 | |
| 7739077165 | repudiate | to deny the truth/validity of | 18 | |
| 7739087215 | bellicose | demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. |  | 19 |
| 7841705491 | ubiquitous | present or existing everywhere | 20 | |
| 7841714877 | usurp | to seize and hold a position by force or without right |  | 21 |
| 7906902979 | insipid | bland | 22 | |
| 7906907536 | vitnolic | filled with bitter resentment or malice | 23 | |
| 8368245482 | Ad Hoc Argument | hypothesis is added to save the claim from being false; making stuff up | 24 | |
| 8368248798 | colloquial | (language) informal, not literary, familiar |  | 25 |
| 8590652449 | pithy | (describing language) concise and forcefully expressive | 26 | |
| 8590657404 | banal | unoriginal | 27 | |
| 9157335843 | monolithic | largely uniform | 28 | |
| 9157337624 | obsequious | obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree |  | 29 |
