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40 Cards in this Set
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Ecclesiastical |
of or relating to the Christian Church or its clergy
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Fallible |
capable of making mistakes or being erroneous.
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Infallible |
absolutely trustworthy or sure
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Endeavoring |
try hard to do or achieve something
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Propagation |
To multiply |
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Approbation |
approval or praise
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Incitement |
the action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully. |
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Unremitting |
never relaxing or slackening; incessant |
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Proscribing |
forbid, especially by law |
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Incapacity |
physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs. |
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Emolument |
a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office |
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Injuriously |
causing or likely to cause damage or harm |
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Sentiments |
a view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion |
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Overt |
done or shown openly; plainly or readily apparent, not secret or hidden. |
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Antagonist |
a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary
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Interposition |
the action of interposing someone or something
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Loaded Language |
is wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes
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Hypocrisy |
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 |
a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion
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Burthen |
a load, especially a heavy one.
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Irony |
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 |
the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service
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Parallelism |
the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
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Analogy |
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 |
is a question that you ask without expecting an answer
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Ethical Appeal |
is a method of persuasion that's based on the author's credibility
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Emotional Appeal |
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 |
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 |
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 |
a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument
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Personification |
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 |
characterized by the inference of general laws from particular instances
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Suffixes |
a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative, e.g., -ation, -fy, -ing,-itis.
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Noun |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.
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Zealously |
having or showing zeal
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Covet |
yearn to possess or have (something)
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