TKAM Chapters 16-20 Vocab

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English

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31 Terms

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concede
to admit as true; to yield, submit
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supeona
a legal order directing one to appear in court and/or to produce certain evidence
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elucidate
to make clear
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solicitor
lawyer in the lower court of law
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litigant
a person involved in a lawsuit
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convened
come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble
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amiably
in a friendly manner
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corroborating
supporting with evidence or authority
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refuse
garbage, trash
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deigned
to grant or agree condescendingly to do something; stoop
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acrimonious
angry and bitter, usually in tone
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dogged
persistent, stubbornly determined, refusing to give up
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tenet
belief, doctrine
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complacent
Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy or neglectful)
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pantomime
A performance using gestures and body movements without words
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mollified
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone)
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chiffarobe
dresser
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browbeating
to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully
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articulate
able to speak clearly and expressively
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volition
a conscious choice or decision
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unmitigated
not softened or lessened
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temerity
rashness, boldness
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cynical
believing that people act only out of selfish motives
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Rhetoric
the art of using language effectively and persuasively
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Rhetorical Devices
literary techniques used to heighten the effectiveness of the message: alliteration, allusion, anaphora, metaphor, parallelism and simile
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Anaphora
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
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Parallelism
Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other
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Rhetorical Appeals
ethos, pathos, logos
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Ethos
the ethical appeal, to convince an audience of the speaker's credibility or character as trustworthy
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Logos
the logical appeal; the use of facts, data and statistics to support your claim.
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Pathos
the emotional appeal; to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions
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