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List #6
list 6 Ms. Fergusons honors
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| analogy | similarity; partial resemblance |
| arbiter | a judge; one empowered to settle a dispute |
| arbitrary | based on whim rather than reason |
| august | inspiring awe and reverence; majestic |
| autonomous | selfgoverning; independent |
| bigoted | predjudiced; narrow-minded; intolerant |
| catholic | tolerant; universal |
| chauvinist | one who is a fanatical patriot |
| cite | to refer to; mention or quote as proof of |
| cogitate | to ponder or tink about seriously |
| condign | deserved; suitable, said esp. of punishment |
| conjecture | a gues or interference |
| construe | to interpret or explain |
| credence | belief |
| demogoue | rabble rouser; one who tries to stir up the people by appeals to emotions, predjudice |
| dictum | a formal statement; an authoritive command |
| dogmatic | strongley; arrogantly asserting an opinion |
| equity | fairness; impartiality |
| equitable | just; fair |
| fallacy | a mistaken idea; false reasoning or logic |
| forensic | characteristic of or suitable for a law court or public debate |
| incumbent | resting upon as duty or obligation |
| incredible | amazing |
| inference | conclusion or deduction arrived at by reasoning from somthing known or observed |
| invalidate | to make void; to deprive of legal force |
| irrefutable | incapable of being disaproved |
| jingoist | extreme nationalist; chauvinist one who favors an aggressive, warlike foriegn policy |
| lackey | a servile attendant; toady |
| laissez-faire | non-interference, esp. the doctrine of government's non-interference with commerce |
| litigious | given to carrying on legal disputes |
| martinet | a very strict disciplinarian |
| moot | debatable; argueable; unresolved 2. without significance through having been previously decided or settled |
| pensive | thoughtful, eps. upon grave or melancholy subjects |
| peremptory | decisive, positive, dogmatic |
| plebeian | characteristic of lower class or common people |
| plebiscite | direct vote by all eligible voters |
| postulate | to assume the truth or reality of with no proof somthing assumed without proof |
| precedent | an act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar cases |
| precedence | the act state or right of going before; priority |
| premise | a statement from which an argument is made or a conclusion is drawn |
| preogative | a privalige; usually based on rank status ect. |
| presentment | a presentation or exibition |
| provincial | countrified; rustic |
| rebut | to contradict or oppose, eps. in a formal manner by disaproving |
| redress | compensation as for a wrong, to remedy or to make amends for |
| refute | to prove wrong or false |
| regimen | a regulated system of diet, exercise, or goverenment |
| rostrum | a platform for a public speaker |
| surmise | to guess or infer |
| syllogism | a form of deductive reasoning in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion drawn from them |
| utopian | having impossibly ideal conditions |
| vassal | one who is in a humble and subordinate position, frequently as a slave or fuedal tentant |
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