Enriched Vocabulary 1-10

Mr. Fuentes

Fidelity

Relating to one’s faith; Accuracy in replication

Subject

The one or thing completing the action

Predicate

The action or verb in the sentence

Premise

“reasons” stuff that supports your claim

Conclusion

“Reasoned Judgement”— after sufficient evidence

Awkward

Hard to understand; weird, lacking grace and ease

Principle

one’s beliefs; what someone stands for

Fluid

in writing smooth, elegant, and graceful; integrated smootly

Cohesion

in writing when the big ideas and concepts form a united whole

Clarity

Clear and easily understood by others

Concise

being direct; lots of information in little words

Ambiguity

Open to interpretation; hard to understand because of being “open to interpretation”

Essential

absolutely necessary; vital

Inquisitive

motivation to ask further questions; curious

Articulate

the act of expressing and formulating ideas

Nuance

“complexity”

Fallacy

failure in reasoning leading to a faulty argument

Straw Man Fallacy

Oversimplification of an argument and setting it as the arguers premise; type of fallacy

ad hominem fallacy

When someone attacks the person instead of the argument; type of fallacy

post hoc fallacy

A presumption that because x happened y was a correlation an effect of x; type of fallacy

Slippery Slope Fallacy

One effect leads to another, that leads to another, that leads to another; thus, by the transitive property dogs equal murder; type of fallacy

Hasty Generalization Fallacy

A conclusion drawn by insufficient evidence; type of fallacy

Either Or Fallacy

A conclusion that splits the argument into 2 sides; type of fallacy

No True Scotsman Fallacy

The devaluing by saying because x doesn’t do y they aren’t really x; type of fallacy

Exigence

an issue that motivates the argument

Claim

the statement being made

Counterclaim

A claim that opposes your’s

Rebuttal

a response to a counterclaim—disproving it

Concession

admission that the other persons argument is irrefutable

Qualifier

limiting the horizons of an argument

Contention

another type of claim forwarded in an argument; assertion or claim

Assertion

another type of claim forwarded in an argument; contention or claim

Rhetoric

“The art of speaking”

Audience

the intended people meant to engage, interact, and or listen to the text

Speaker

author of the text

Text

any form of communication

Context

indirect forms of communication beyond text