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40 Cards in this Set
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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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incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
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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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Propagation is the reproduction or spreading of something. When a plant or animal reproduces, this is an example of propagation. When an idea or a trend spreads to a new area, this is an example ofpropagation.
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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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In rhetoric, loaded language (also known as loaded terms or emotivelanguage) is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes. Such wording is also known as high-inference language or language persuasive techniques.
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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 previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion.
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Burthens
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load, especially a heavy one.
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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 effect.
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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 use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
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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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A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point rather than to elicit an answer.
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Ethical appeal
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An ethical appeal is a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility. It's one of the three appeals that Aristotle identified as the most effective tools of persuasive writing or speaking. The other two are logical appeals and emotional appeals.
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Emotional appeal
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An emotional appeal is a method of persuasion that's designed to create an emotional response. Emotion (also known as pathos or suffering in Greek) is one of the three modes of persuasion identified by Aristotle. The other two are logos, or logic, and ethos, or authority
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Appeal to authority
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An Appeal to Authority 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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an "appeal by association" 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, such as hear, become, happen.
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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, etc
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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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assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.
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Zealously
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having or showing zeal
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Covet
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yearn to possess or have (something
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