Stenner Multiple Choice Cards
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veryKOOL1326 on December 11, 2011
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 aesthetic | of or concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste |
| antithesis | rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences |
| amoral | not admitting of moral distinctions or judgments; neither moral nor immoral |
| aphorism | a terse statement of a truth or opinion; an adage; a brief statement of a principle |
| ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation; doubtful or uncertain |
| analogous | similar in such a way as to permit analogy; similar in function but not in structure |
| approbation | an expression of warm approval; praise; official approval |
| beneficial | producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous |
| censor | one that condemns or censures |
| credibility | the quality or power of inspiring belief |
| churlish | marked by a lack of civility or graciousness; vulgar; boorish |
| cynical | contemptuously distrustful of human nature and morals |
| diminutive | indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, lovable, pitiable, or contemptible; small |
| dogma | something held as an established opinion; a doctrine or body of doctrines concerning faith or morals formally stated and authoritatively proclaimed by a church |
| mayhem | willful and permanent deprivation of a bodily member resulting in the impairment of any part of the body |
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