Mid Term Exam Vocabs

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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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absolutely trustworthy or sure

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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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To multiply

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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 previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion

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Burthen

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a 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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Rethorical Question

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is a question 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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Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument

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Appeal To Association

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techniques that persuade by playing on the audience's desire to fit in, to have a positive image, or be connected to someone they admire

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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, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing,-itis.

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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)