Vocab set 2 (enders game)

ELA 9

Enervation

completely drained

Prostrately

lay facing downward, carries a context of worship

xenophobia

being scared of foreigners

execrable

extremely bad/unpleasant

malleable

can be changable

gambit

a plan or trap or gamble

propensity

someone’s natural tendency to learn

lament

serious expression of grief; to mourn

bellicose

demonstrates aggression and willing to fight

penitence

feeling/showing sorrow and regret for doing wrong; repent

Proportionality

even

Prevailing

advantage; win; the most common

Appeals

to try to get the audience to feel a certain way

Fallacy

false

Ethos

the credibility of the speaker

Logos

dealing with logic

Pathos

dealing with emotion

Requital

something given in return

Portent

sign/warning something will happen

Irreproachable

Not blame-able

Empyrean

related to the upper air; related: gods on high

Transcendent

going across/upwards

Reticent

to be silent

Demure

reserved, modest, shy (of a woman)

Bandwagon argument

agreeing with a bunch of people who are wrong, making you also wrong

Cherry picking

only picking the evidence that would support the argument, not the whole picture

False causality

incorrectly assuming relations exist between two events because one happened before the other

False Dichotomy

ony representing two extreme options

Hasty Generalization

making a big conclusion w/o much evidence

out of context quote

when they only use part of the quote

Illegal goal post move

demanding more proof with something that has already been proved

Slippery slope

not linking the second event w/o direct cause of the first

Precursor

smth related that comes before

Confederate

United in league or a group of people join by agreement

Itinerant

traveling from place to place (adj)

Schism

a split (of groups), usually caused by differences

Arbitrary

based on random choice w/o reason

Assertion

a confident claim