Unit 1: Academic and Literary Vocabulary

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  1. appeal
    (rhetoric) a method or mode of persuasion
  2. concession
    the act of yielding
  3. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  4. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  5. evidence
    knowledge on which to base belief
  6. figurative
    not literal
  7. infer
    reason by deduction; establish by deduction
  8. literal
    limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
  9. rebuttal
    the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary argument
  10. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  11. logical fallacy
    an error in reasoning that undermines an argument
Created on Fri Nov 19 16:31:29 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 05 15:12:11 EST 2022)

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