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SAT Vocab part 3

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Definition
raze   destroy completely  
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ad hominem   Latin for "against the man." Personally attacking your opponents instead of their argument. It is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, feeling rather than intellect.  
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quiescence   state of being at rest; temporary inactivity  
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analogy   A comparison of one pair of variables. When a writer uses an analogy, he or she argues that the relationship variables between the second pair of variables.  
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alleviate   to relieve, make more bearable  
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contradiction   occurs when one asserts two mutually exclusive propositions. Since a claim and its contradictory cannot both be true, one of them must be false.  
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Iconoclastic   attacking cherished traditions  
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cliche thinking   Usually as evidence a well-known saying, as it is proven, or as of it has no exception.  
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emulate   imitate; strive to equal or excel  
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Dialogismus   A speaker either imagines what someone or something else might be thinking, or else paraphrases someone's earlier words. In either case, the speaker ends up taking not as themselves just for rhetorical effect.  
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heresy   opinion contrary to popular belief  
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invective   A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language.  
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Eulogy   expression of praise  
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Paradox   a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true  
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Morose   ill-humored; sad; gloomy  
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Slippery slope   The assumption that once started, a situation will continue to its most extreme possible outcome.  
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Torpor   physical or mental inactivity: sluggishness; dormancy  
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bathos   A sudden change of tone in a work of writing, usually form the sublime to the ridiculous.  
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Ambivalence   the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes  
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Hasty Generalization   A generalization based on too little or unrepresentative data  
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