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Credible
prononounced: cred·i·ble |
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- Able to be believed; convincing.
- Capable of persuading people that something will happen or be successful: "a credible threat".
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Grounds
pronounced:ɡraʊnd
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| Often, grounds. the foundation or basis on which a belief or action rests; reason or cause: grounds for dismissal. |
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Refutation
Pronounced: ref·u·ta·tion
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| an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof. |
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Persuasion
Pronounced:per·sua·sion
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1.the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
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the power of persuading; persuasive force.
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the state or fact of being persuaded or convinced.
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a deep conviction or belief.
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a form or system of belief, especially religious belief: the Quaker persuasion. |
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| Philosophy . the rational principle that governs and develops the universe. |
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bandwagon
pronounced:band·wag·on
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| a party, cause, movement, etc., that by its mass appeal or strength readily attracts many followers |
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Proposal
Pronounced:pro·pos·al
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the act of offering or suggesting something for acceptance, adoption, or performance. |
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Rhetoric
pronounced:rhet·o·ric |
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(in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display;bombast.
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the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language inprose or verse, including the figures of speech.
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the study of the effective use of language.
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the ability to use language effectively.
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the art of prose in general as opposed to verse.
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| information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. 9 |
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opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
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the direct opposite |
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| understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.” |
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| an act of rebutting, as in a debate. |
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the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication.
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an equivocal, ambiguous expression; equivoque: The speech was marked by elaborate equivocations.
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Logic. a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word. |
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| the moral element in dramatic literature that determines a character's action rather than his or her thought or emotion. |
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a plural of medium.
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( usually used with a plural verb ) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely: The media are covering the speech tonight. |
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| the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. |
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| the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: |
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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory orabsurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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a self-contradictory and false proposition.
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any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparentlycontradictory nature.
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an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.
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Also called epanaphora. Rhetoric . repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe ( def 1 ) , symploce.
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Grammar . the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words, as the use of it and do in I know it and he does too. Compare cataphora. |
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