Week 1 vocabulary
Terms
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- discourse
- verbal expression or exchange; conversation
- cryptic
- difficult to comprehend
- rhetoric
- easily understood; clear
- fluid
- easy flowing
- eloquence
- ability to speak vividly or persuasively
- lucid
- the art of using language effectively and persuasively
- impede
- to slow the progress of
- plausible
- treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
- arbiter
- a judge of a disputed issue
- cohesive
- the condition of sticking together
- implication
- the act of hinting or suggesting
- jurisprudence
- supported with proof or evidence; verified
- contemptuos
- feeling hatred; scorned
- substantiated
- the philosophy or science of law
- didactic
- intended to instruct
- vindicated
- freed from blame
- exculpate
- to free from guilt or blame
- integrity
- trustworthiness; completeness
- pentitent
- expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
- haughty
- arrogant; vainly proud
- incontrovertible
- indisputable; not open to question
- condescending
- treating people as weak or inferior
- clarity
- clearness in thought or expression
- patronizing
- treating in a condescending manner
- dictatorial
- domineering; oppressively overbearing
- imperious
- arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- despotic
- exercising absolute power; tyrannical
- objectivity
- seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
- impartial
- not in favor of one side or the other; unbiased
- pundit
- an authority who expresses his or her opinions
- disdain
-
n. contempt; scorn
v. to regard or treat with comtempt; to look down on - futile
- having no useful purpose; pointless
- emphasize
- to give special attention to something; to stress
- obscure
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adj. relatively unknown
v. to conceal or make indistinct - quandary
- a state of uncertainty or perplexity
- biased
- prjudiced
- cogent
- convincing; reasonable
- coherent
- logically
- assertion
- a declaration or statement
- convulted
- intricate; complex
- dilatory
- habitually late
- indolent
- lazy
- insipid
- uninteresting
- listless
- lacking energy
- torpor
- laziness;inactivity; dullness
- alienated
- removed or disassociated from others
- alliance
- a union of two or more groups
- disparity
- inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
- servile
- submissive
- supressed
- subdued; kept from being circulated