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| 14614292758 | rhetoric | n. the choices involving language that a communicator makes so that the message becomes meaningful for a targeted audience | 0 | |
| 14614295917 | diction | n. the writer or speaker's word choice | 1 | |
| 14614297461 | connotation | n. an emotional association or implication connected to a word | 2 | |
| 14614298569 | syntax | n. the writer or speaker's arrangement of words within a phrase, clause, or sentence | 3 | |
| 14614299886 | tone | n. the writer or speaker's emotional attitude toward the audience or subject matter | 4 | |
| 14614304526 | ethical appeal (ethos) | n. the degree of credibility or trustworthiness that authors establish with an audience | 5 | |
| 14614307075 | logical appeal (logos) | n. the writer or speaker's attempt to convince an audience using facts, scientific research, statistics, or experts | 6 | |
| 14614310555 | emotional appeal (pathos) | n. the writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience by appealing to the audience's emotions | 7 | |
| 14614312516 | voice | n. the writer's use of such elements as diction, tone, syntax, unity, coherence, and audience to create a clear and distinct "personality of the writer" | 8 | |
| 14614314769 | subjective | adj. influenced by personal feelings; biased | 9 | |
| 14614315495 | objective | adj. not influenced by personal feelings; unbiased | 10 | |
| 14614316196 | adamantine | adj. rigidly firm | 11 | |
| 14614317206 | banal | adj. meaningless; commonplace | 12 | |
| 14614318649 | euphemistic | adj. replacing an offensive term with one that is inoffensive | 13 | |
| 14614319590 | exacerbate | v. to make worse; to aggravate | 14 | |
| 14614320225 | facetious | adj. sarcastic | 15 | |
| 14614320661 | incendiary | adj. tending to provoke | 16 | |
| 14614321227 | meticulous | adj. extremely careful and precise | 17 | |
| 14614322960 | pejorative | adj. belittling | 18 | |
| 14614323451 | poignant | adj. profoundly moving; touching | 19 | |
| 14614323850 | substantiate | v. to establish with evidence | 20 | |
| 14658341829 | ambivalent | adj. characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes; uncertain about a choice | 21 | |
| 14658341830 | ardent | adj. intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic | 22 | |
| 14658341831 | emulate | v. to imitate | 23 | |
| 14658341832 | flippant | adj. showing inappropriate casualness | 24 | |
| 14658341833 | germane | adj. relevant, appropriate | 25 | |
| 14658341834 | haughty | adj. condescendingly proud | 26 | |
| 14658341835 | indignant | adj. angered at something unjust or wrong | 27 | |
| 14658341836 | myopic | adj. lacking a realistic view of a situation | 28 | |
| 14658341837 | propound | v. to put forward for consideration | 29 | |
| 14658341838 | prudent | adj. using good judgement or common sense | 30 | |
| 14881668912 | acrimonious | adj. bitter and sharp in language or tone | 31 | |
| 14881673629 | bantering | n. a witty and teasing conversation | 32 | |
| 14881679159 | bombastic | adj. marked by pretentious speech or writing | 33 | |
| 14881684122 | cacophonous | adj. having a harsh, conflicting sound; unpleasing to the literal or metaphorical ear | 34 | |
| 14881690815 | discordant | adj. conflicting | 35 | |
| 14881694857 | disparaging | adj. to speak of in a disrespectful way | 36 | |
| 14881699297 | fatuous | adj. void of sense or intelligence | 37 | |
| 14881702161 | surreptitious | adj. stealthy | 38 | |
| 14881704624 | trepidation | n. fear | 39 | |
| 14881708009 | unequivocal | adj. having only one possible meaning or interpretation | 40 | |
| 15404561989 | brusque | adj. very short and abrupt in manner | 41 | |
| 15404564082 | censure | v. to criticize harshly | 42 | |
| 15404567527 | chagrin | n. a feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by a failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event | 43 | |
| 15404574185 | circumspect | adj. considering all circumstances and consequences | 44 | |
| 15404590798 | didactic | adj. intended to teach | 45 | |
| 15404592566 | extol | v. to praise highly | 46 | |
| 15404594302 | fortuitous | adj. happening by luck | 47 | |
| 15404596156 | perfidious | adj. faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy | 48 | |
| 15404601469 | rancorous | adj. bitter, hateful | 49 | |
| 15404602554 | tactful | adj. skillful in acting to avoid offense to others | 50 | |
| 15404605447 | amicable | adj. friendly, agreeable | 51 | |
| 15404615488 | conundrum | n. a complex and difficult problem | 52 | |
| 15404617170 | debauchery | n. a moral corruption | 53 | |
| 15404618698 | flagrant | adj. obviously offensive or reprehensible | 54 | |
| 15404620976 | nebulous | adj. vague | 55 | |
| 15404626029 | prodigal | adj. lavish; wasteful | 56 | |
| 15404631930 | querulous | adj. complaining, irritable | 57 | |
| 15404635074 | sagacity | n. wisdom | 58 | |
| 15404641469 | superfluous | adj. extra, more than enough, redundant | 59 | |
| 15404644959 | surmise | v. to infer; to guess | 60 |
