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15 Cards in this Set
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Rhetorical
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showy or over elaborate speech
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Ontology
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the branch of philosophy that deals with being Ontological- holding that the existence of a concept of some thing entails the existence of that thing, for example; god
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Prescient
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foreknowledge, foresight
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Sanguine
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passionate,eagerly optimistic, cheerful, blood red
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Insouciant
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lack of concern, indifference, carefree
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Putative
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supposed,reputed
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Sophistry
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plausible but fallacious, deceptive argument,subtle argument, specious . “sophistry of the cheapest sort”
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Inanition
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lack of mental or moral vigor; emtiness
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Dystopia
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oppression, opposite of utopia
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Chimera
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imaginary,unreal, composite of lion,goat, and serpent. Organism from two geneticallydistinct parents
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Tendentious
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biased, not impartial
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Vitiate
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(vish e ate) to impair the value or quality of; make faulty or spoil; to corrupt, debase, pervert; to invalidate
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Capacious
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spacious, roomy,to contain a large quanity
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Precatory
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relating to or expressing entreaty or supplication
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Supplicate
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to ask humbly as by praying; beseech
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