|
 affect | influence |
| ambiguous | equivocal |
| conclusion | deduction |
| deceptive | inviting a mistaken belief |
| exhaustive | thorough |
| factor | one of the elements that contributes to a particular effect |
| imply | to make something understood without expressing it directly |
| impugn | to question the integrity of something |
| insufficient | not enough |
| misconstrue | misunderstand |
| overstate | exaggerate |
| plausible | believable |
| proposal | prescription |
| reason | basis |
| reject out of hand | to dismiss without any consideration whatsoever |
| rejoinder | rebuttal |
| resulting from | an expression that introduces a cause |
| sweeping | too general |
| unqualified endorsement | wholehearted support |
| warranted | justified |
| a few | several |
| advocate | endorse |
| arbitrary | based solely on subjective perceptions and feelings, rather than on objective facts and principles |
| concede | acknowledge |
| confuse...with... | to fail to distinguish between...and... |
| consequence | result |
| counterexample | something that is set forth to refute a general principle |
| deduce | conclude |
| facet | aspect |
| groundless | lacking support |
| improbable | unlikely |
| nevertheless | yet |
| non-negligible | considerable |
| phenomenon | thing |
| preclude | disallow |
| tenet | a fundamental belief |
| until | the temporal version of unless |
| vulnerable | open to criticism |
| warranted | justified |
| ameliorate | to make something better |
| anomaly | a rare exception |
| conclude | infer |
| confuse | to mistakenly equate |
| consensus | widespread agreement among all members of a group |
| consequently | thus |
| correlation | a relationship between two variables in which a variation in one is accompanied by a variation in the other |
| exacerbate | to make a bad situation worse |
| exclude | disallow |
| improbable | unlikely |
| influence | affect |
| irrefutable | incontrovertible |
| non-negligible | substantial |
| overlook | to fail to recognize |
| qualified support | limited advocacy |
| sole | exclusive |
| supersede | override |
| synthesis | the combining of different elements into a new whole |
| unambiguous | explicit |
| appeal to... | to use...as a premise |
| adequate | sufficient |
| holistic | focusing on the whole itself and not just on its parts |
| none | the logical opposite of some |
| misleading | inviting a false belief |
| only | sole |
| probable | happening more often than not |
| qualified support | limited approval |
| some | at least one |
| temporal | pertaining to time |
| undermine | to call into question |
| vague | unclear |
| yet | nevertheless |
| advocate | endorse |
| aspect | facet |
| aspect | facet |
| consequence | effect |
| furthermore | moreover |
| telling | revealing |
| if | a word that introduces a sufficient condition (except when preceded by only) |
| only when | a phrase that introduces a necessary condition |
| prescribe | to lay something down as law |
| qualify | to limit in scope |
| undermine | to challenge |
| concede | admit |
| dichotomy | a separation of contradictory things |
| exhaustive | complete in every detail |
| it follows that | thus |
| postulate | something that is assumed to be true and that is used as the basis of an argument |