English Exam

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Ecclesiastical

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of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy.

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Fallible

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capable of making mistakes or being erroneous.

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Infallible

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never failing; always effective.

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Endeavoring

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try hard to do or achieve something.

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Propagation

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the act or action of propagating: as. a : increase (as of a kind of organism) in numbers.

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Approbation

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approval or praise.

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Incitement

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the action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully.

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Unremitting

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never relaxing or slackening; incessant.

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Proscribing

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forbid, especially by law.

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Incapacity

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physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs.

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Emolument

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a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.

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Injuriously

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causing or likely to cause damage or harm.

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Sentiments

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a view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion.

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Overt

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done or shown openly; plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden.

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Antagonist

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a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

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Interposition

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the action of interposing someone or something.

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Loaded language

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is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes.

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Hypocrisy

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the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense

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Premise

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a house or building, together with its land and outbuildings, occupied by a business or considered in an official context.

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Burthens

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that which is carried; load:

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Irony

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic ef

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Monopoly

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the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

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Parallelism

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the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.

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Analogy

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a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.

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Rhetorical question

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that you ask without expecting an answer.

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Ethical appeal

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is a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility.

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Emotional appeal

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is 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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Appeal to authority

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is 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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Appeal to association

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is a persuasive technique through which a link is drawn between two unrelated things to make a point.

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Fallacy

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a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

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Personification

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the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Inductive

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characterized by the inference of general laws from particular instances.

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Suffixes

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a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative

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Noun

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a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things common noun, or to name a particular one of these proper noun.

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Verb

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a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence

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Adverb

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a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree

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Adjective

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a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

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Officiously

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Officious is a tricky word as it seems like it might mean something like office or official. Instead, it is a word to describe someone that acts more official than they actually are. People who are officious are busybodies. They want to make their opinions known and followed, despite not having any kind of real power.

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Zealously

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.full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, ordiligent.

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Covet

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yearn to possess or have (something).