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| 14553999006 | abstract | difficult to understand |  | 0 |
| 14553999857 | ad hominem | attacking the person not the arguement |  | 1 |
| 14554003093 | Aphorism | a concise statement of a truth or principle |  | 2 |
| 14554004675 | anecdote | a terse story about a real incident or person |  | 3 |
| 14554008801 | Artifice | deception; trickery |  | 4 |
| 14554009651 | astute | shrewd; clever |  | 5 |
| 14554012627 | compunction | remorse, regret when u do something bad |  | 6 |
| 14554020611 | contentious | quarrelsome |  | 7 |
| 14554054005 | dangling participle | To correct a ____, place the participial closer to the word it modifies; example: (incorrect: PLAYING SOLITAIRE, at the table sat a bored young man. / correct: At the table sat a bored young man PLAYING SOLITAIRE.) | 8 | |
| 14554058287 | deferential | showing respect |  | 9 |
| 14554063179 | dichotomy | a split into two parts |  | 10 |
| 14554065108 | didactic | intended to instruct |  | 11 |
| 14554076491 | Discursive | bounding off from one subject to another away from the topic |  | 12 |
| 14554077521 | Disparage | belittle | 13 | |
| 14554078581 | disparate | Different/unequal | 14 | |
| 14554082920 | disseminate | to spread | 15 | |
| 14554086606 | effusive | Gushing a lot | 16 | |
| 14554104421 | Ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation or to leave out words but still have the same meaning | 17 | |
| 14554106690 | emphatic | to emphasize/stress importance | 18 | |
| 14554112088 | Enumeration | listing items in order | 19 | |
| 14554248253 | equivocal | ambiguous | 20 | |
| 14554248803 | erudite | (adj.) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic | 21 | |
| 14554249991 | Ethos | beliefs or character of a group | 22 | |
| 14556858999 | exemplify | to make an example out of | 23 | |
| 14556860274 | Exhort | to urge strongly | 24 | |
| 14556862683 | exalt | to glorify | 25 | |
| 14556864938 | fastidious | Difficult to please | 26 | |
| 14556865726 | fallacy | bad reasoning under a mistaken belief | 27 | |
| 14556877286 | genial | friendly and cheerful |  | 28 |
| 14557403142 | harpsichord | piano |  | 29 |
| 14557406671 | Heresay | rumor | 30 | |
| 14557407543 | Heuristic | an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods | 31 | |
| 14557411694 | Homily/Sermon | a short and religious speech in public by the clergy as a part of a worship | 32 | |
| 14683015732 | idiosyncratic | Peculiar to one person; highly individualized | 33 | |
| 14683021742 | impressionistic | based on personal response | 34 | |
| 14683027668 | indiscretion | behaviour lacking wisdom or good judgment | 35 | |
| 14683035999 | Inductive | Opposite of deductive by adding inferences | 36 | |
| 14683043334 | infraction | violation | 37 | |
| 14683048806 | ingratiate | gain favor or by deliberate effort/ position yourself in a certain place | 38 | |
| 14683053007 | innate | inborn; natural | 39 | |
| 14683057766 | innocuous | harmless | 40 | |
| 14683082795 | Inscrutable | difficult to understand | 41 | |
| 14683085112 | insular | isolated | 42 | |
| 14683087026 | Introspective | Self reflection | 43 | |
| 14683089584 | Jaded | worn out | 44 | |
| 14683090802 | Jargon | gibberish | 45 | |
| 14683093956 | loaded diction | Words and/or phrases intended to inspire emotion in the audience | 46 | |
| 14683095417 | Logos | logic/divine wisdom | 47 | |
| 14683102828 | Meritocracy | Class based on academic achievement | 48 | |
| 14683115115 | Metonymy | when the name of one thing is used in place of another related to it EX: "The White House" for "The President" | 49 | |
| 14683121473 | Opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through | 50 | |
| 14683124916 | orthodox | traditional way of doing stuff | 51 | |
| 14683127971 | Paucity | scarcity | 52 | |
| 14683129152 | Pathos | Appeal to emotions like pity | 53 | |
| 14683132156 | Pedantic | tending to show off one's learning | 54 | |
| 14683133406 | Pious | devoutly religious | 55 | |
| 14683135682 | Polemical | causing debate or argument | 56 | |
| 14683137771 | Pragmatic | practical | 57 | |
| 14683140615 | Propagate | reproduce | 58 | |
| 14683155573 | Propriety | politeness | 59 | |
| 14683157632 | Prose | the ordinary form of written language | 60 | |
| 14683164531 | Restitution | Restoration | 61 | |
| 14683168796 | Rhetorical Modes | exposition, description, narration, argumentation | 62 | |
| 14683173256 | self-effacing | modest | 63 | |
| 14683176535 | Staccato | detached | 64 | |
| 14683178657 | Strident | loud and harsh | 65 | |
| 14683181988 | Subjective | based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions | 66 | |
| 14683186654 | Syllogism | three-part deduction a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") | 67 | |
| 14683197415 | Synecdoche | Synecdoche - a figure of speech by which a part Representing the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society) | 68 | |
| 14683210552 | Taxonomy | The scientific study of how living things are classified | 69 | |
| 14683213979 | Treatise | systematic argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached | 70 | |
| 14683217254 | Unadorned | plain | 71 | |
| 14683220143 | Veracity | truthfulness | 72 | |
| 14683221930 | Verbosity | using too many words | 73 | |
| 14683225008 | Unpretentious | modest | 74 |
