| A | B |
|---|
| Abstract | Theoretical; impersonal |
| Analogy | A comparison of one thing to another; similarty |
| Cogent | Powefully convincing |
| Contrived | Artifical; labored |
| Criterion | Standard; basis for judgement |
| digress | to stray from the main subject |
| Empirical | Relying on experience or obsrevation; not merely theoretical |
| Hypotheitical | Uncretain; unproven |
| Infer | To conclude; to deduce |
| Olique | Indirect; at an angle |
| Obscure | Uknown; hard to understand; dark |
| Pedantic | Boringly scholarly or academic |
| Premise | An assumption; the basis for a conlcusion |
| Refute | to prove to be faslse; to disprove |
| Specious | Deceptively plausable or attractive |
| Superfiical | On the surface; shallow; not thorough |
| Sytnehsis | The combing of pats from a whole |
| Tenable | Defensible, as in ones position in an arguemnt; capable of being arged successfuly; valid. |
| Tenuous | Flimsy; extremly thin |
| Verbose | using too many words; not succinct; cirrulatory |
