Total Vocab Set

Platitude

Uninteresting statement bc its widely understood

Falsify

To forge; To prove false

Plausible

Likely to be true

Implicit

Indirectly shown

Explicit

Direct Manifestation

Defensible

able to be defended

Empirical

Having to do with the senses

Coherent

Unified and logical

Corroborate

To reinforce an argument/idea

Superficial

Surface level

Profound

Insightful

I.e.

Id est

E.g.

Exempli gratia

Ibid.

Ibidem

Ubiquitous

present everywhere

Precise

Accurate

Concise

To the point

Dubious

Questionable

Qua

As a

Phenomenon

A given fact of life

Impugn

To cast suspicion

Ambiguous

Open to multiple interpretations

Pugnacious

Verbally or physically combative

Explicate

Analyze and develop

Entail

Follows from

Quantitative

Concerns how much

Qualitative

The whatness (can't be measured)

Synthesize

To bring multiple things into a unity

Analyze

Break apart to understand components

Prima Facie

At first glance

To integrate

Unified things as added one from the outside

Disintegrate

loss of unity

Intelligible

Something makes sense to the mind

Rational

Belief to attempt/succeeded to line up with reality

Antidote

Cure or remedy for a problem

Anecdote

Short personal story

Per se

in itself/to itself

To excise

To cutout

Egregious

Really Bad

Substantive

Quality of dept or significance

Deification

To make something God

Discern

Attempt to see something that is not immediately there

Veneer/Facade

Covering of some kind that is not real but pleasant but the inside is ugly but real

Autonomy

Self-rule/self-governed

Subtle

Not easily discerned/minor/fine

Transcendence

To go above and beyond in quality

Zeitgeist

Spirit of the Times

Doublethink

To hold 2 contradictory ideas and believe that they are both true

To memory hole

Eliminate from History

unperson

If you run a fowl, cancel culture, all historical references and connections are cut off

to manifest

to make obvious or clear

Panacea

Cure for all

To mitigate

To diminish/reduce/waterdown

Periphery

Around the edge

Illusion

Appears to be real but is not

Chimera

An unrealistic/impossible idea

Gullible

Believe things too easily without enough evidence

Deference

yield to someone else’s authority

Conjecture

a belief/guess/hypothesis with little jusification

Ineffable

Unable to be put into words or ideas

To galvanize

to provoke/insight to action as if by electric shock

To intimate

the idea to communicate something implicitly, suggest something indirectly

Periphery

around the edges

Penumbra

Hazy regions beside darkness or shadow