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40 Cards in this Set
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1.Ecclesiastical |
of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy. |
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2. Fallible |
capable of making mistakes or being erroneous |
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3. Infallible |
not capable of making mistakes or being erroneous |
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4. Endeavoring |
try hard to do or achieve something. |
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5. Propagation |
the act or action of propagating: the spreading of something (as a belief) abroad or into new regions |
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6. Approbation |
approval or praise. |
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7. Incitement |
the action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully |
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8. Unremitting |
never relaxing or slackening; incessant. |
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9. Proscribing |
forbid, especially by law. |
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10. Incapacity |
physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs. |
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11. Emolument |
a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office. |
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12. Injuriously |
causing or likely to cause damage or harm. |
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13. Sentiments |
a view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion. |
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14. Overt |
done or shown openly; plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden. |
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15. Antagonist |
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. |
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16. Interposition |
interference. |
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17. Loaded language |
wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes |
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18. Hypocrisy |
the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. |
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19. Premise |
a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion. |
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20. Burthens |
archaic form of burden. |
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21. Irony |
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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22. Monopoly |
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |
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23. Parallelism |
the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, |
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24. Analogy |
a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification. |
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25. Rhetorical question |
a question that you ask without expecting an answer |
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26. Ethical appeal |
a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility |
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27. Emotional appeal |
a logical fallacy, whereby a debater attempts to win an argument by trying to get an emotional reaction from the opponent and audience. |
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28. Appeal to authority |
a fallacy with the following form: Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S. Person A makes claim C about subject S. Therefore, C is true. |
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29. Appeal to association |
persuasive technique through which a link is drawn between two unrelated things to make a point. |
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30. Fallacy |
a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument. |
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31. Personification |
a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas |
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32. Inductive |
characterized by the inference of general laws from particular instances. |
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33. Suffixes |
is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. |
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34. Noun |
person, place, or thing |
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35. Verb |
action |
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36. Adverb |
describes an action |
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37. Adjective |
describes a noun |
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38. Officiously |
a word to describe someone that acts more official than they actually are |
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39. Zealously |
enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm |
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40. Covet |
yearn to possess or have (something). |
