AP Vocabulary 141-160

Question 1

onerous

Answer 1

burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship

Question 2

discretion

Answer 2

cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Question 3

burgeon

Answer 3

grow rapidly or flourish

Question 4

axiom

Answer 4

universally recognized principle

Question 5

ubiquitous

Answer 5

existing everywhere at the same time

Question 6

disabuse

Answer 6

to undeceive; to set right

Question 7

heretical

Answer 7

violating accepted dogma or convention

Question 8

vilify

Answer 8

defame; to characterize harshly

Question 9

dogmatic

Answer 9

expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles

Question 10

perennial

Answer 10

recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

Question 11

fallacy

Answer 11

erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. There are many fallacy examples in everyday life

Question 12

appeal to ignorance

Answer 12

one individual utilizes another individuals lack of info. and specific subject as proof that his own argument is right

Question 13

appeal to authority

Answer 13

arguer will attempt to append their argument to an individual of power or authority, in an effect to give trustworthiness to their argument

Question 14

appeal to popular opinion

Answer 14

somebody asserts that a thought or conviction is correct, since it is a thing that the general population accepts

Question 15

association fallacy

Answer 15

aka “guilt-by-association” happens when somebody connects a particular thought to somebody or something negative, so as to infer blame on another individual

Question 16

attacking the person

Answer 16

argument ad hominem, this is a common fallacy used during debates, where an individual substitutes a rebuttal with a personal insult

Question 17

begging the question

Answer 17

conclusion of a contention is accepted as a statement of the inquiry itself

Question 18

circular argument

Answer 18

aka “circulus in probando”. this error is committed when an argument takes its evidence from an element inside the argument itself, instead of from an outside source