PCAT/MCAT Verbal
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- Platitude
- a trite or obvious remark
- Trite
- banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
- Platitude:Trite
- Platitude is always trite
- Lucid
- coherent: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident"
- Obscurity
- obscureness: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- Lucid:Obscurity
- Lucid is a lack of Obscurity
- Lethargy:Energy
- Lethargy is a lack of energy
- Lope
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jog: a slow pace of running
canter: a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
run easily - Invidious
- discriminatory: containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice; "discriminatory attitudes and practices"; "invidious comparisons"
- Evanescent
- tending to vanish like vapor; "evanescent beauty"
- Panegyric
- A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
- Polemic
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polemicist: a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
of or involving dispute or controversy