Mr Wagners Vocab Words

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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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trying hard to do or achieve something.

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Propagation

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the act of propagating.

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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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harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect:

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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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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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archaic form of burden.

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

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Emotional appeal

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l is a method of persuasion that's designed to create an emotional response.

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Appeal to authority

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is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism

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Appeal to association

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a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument.

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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,

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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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objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome:

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Zealously

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

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Covet

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yearn to possess or have (something).