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| 5002620328 | Sestina | (n) a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. | 0 | |
| 5002620329 | Promulgate | (v.) to proclaim or issue officially; to make known far and wide | 1 | |
| 5002622122 | Propaganda | (n) Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 2 | |
| 5002625032 | Apocryphal | (adj.) fictitious, false, wrong (Because I am standing before you, it seems obvious that the stories circulating about my demise were apocryphal.) | 3 | |
| 5002627394 | Crimes against humanity | (n) As defined by The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: 'murder, extermination, enslavement or deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in the execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country in question'. | 4 | |
| 5002627395 | Race | An aspect of identity based on ancestor appearance and social context that has historically determined unequal status, access to resources and opportunities for different groups, and evolved shared identities and experiences within those groups. | 5 | |
| 5002627396 | Racism | (n) The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. | 6 | |
| 5002629294 | Discrimination | (n) A negative action toward a social group or its members on account of group membership based on race, appearance, gender, or other social norm | 7 | |
| 5002663126 | Suffrage | (n) The right to vote | 8 | |
| 5002699785 | Polemic | (n) A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something; also, an aggressive controversialist | 9 | |
| 5002699786 | Polemics | (n pl.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy | 10 | |
| 5002702047 | Rhetorical analysis | A close reading of a text to find how and whether it persuades. | 11 | |
| 5002702048 | Ethos | One of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. Ethos is basically an appeal to credibility. The writer is seeking to convince you that he or she has the background, history, skills, and/or expertise to speak on the issue. Whenever you encounter an ethos argument, always ask yourself is the credibility is substantiated and valid. An essay advocating policy changes on drug rehabilitation programs is more powerful is the person is a former addict or customer in a current rehab program. | 12 | |
| 5002702049 | Logos | An appeal to reason. Logos is one of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. It occurs when a writer tries to convince you of the logic of his argument. writers may use inductive argumentation or deductive argumentation, but they clearly have examples and generally rational tome to their language. The problem with logos is that is can appear reasonable until you dissect the argument and then find fallacies that defeat the viability of the argument on the reader's eyes. Of course, that presupposes that the readers is able to identify the fallacies. | 13 | |
| 5002702050 | Pathos | An appeal to emotion. This is one of the fundamental strategies of argumentation identified by Aristotle. Typically, pathos arguments may use loaded words to make you feel guilty, lonely, worried, insecure, or confused. The easiest way to remember whats pathos arguments are is to see most advertising as a form of pathos argument. | 14 |
