| A | B |
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| abstract | adj. theoretical; impersonal |
| analogy | n. a comparison of one thing to another |
| cogent | adj. powerfully convincing |
| contrived | adj. artificial |
| criterion | n.standard; basis for judgment |
| digress | v. to stray from the main subject |
| empirical | adj. relying on experience or observation |
| hypothetical | adj. uncertain; unproven |
| infer | v. to conclude; to deduce |
| oblique | adj. indirect; at an angle |
| obscure | adj. unknown; hard to understand; dark |
| pedantic | adj. boringly scholarly or academic |
| premise | n. an assumption; the basis for a conclusion |
| refute | v. to prove to be false |
| specious | adj. deceptively plausible |
| superficial | adj. on the surface only; shallow; not thorough |
| synthesis | n. the combining of parts to form a whole |
| tenable | adj. defensible as in ones position in an argument; valid |
| tenuous | adj. flimsy; extremely thin |
| verbose | adj.using to many words |
