Academic Vocabulary Quiz - Argumentative

Making a claim and supporting it using logic is defined as...

• argument

• reason

• evidence

• retort

The position that you are trying to get your readers to accept is referred to as...

• counterclaim

• claim

• retort

• rebuttal

Counterclaim is...

• Facts that support your claim to include: statistics, specific and revelent

  facts, definitions, expert opinion

• Sources that are: Reliable, Trustworthy and Dependable

• Prejudice in favor of one thing or against another. A one-sided viewpoint -

  it lacks neutrality

• Challenging the argument by addressing the position of someone

  who may not agree with the argument.

Rebuttal or Turn-Back...

• Prejudice in favor of one thing or against another. A one-sided viewpoint -

  it lacks neutrality

• Demonstrates why the counterargument is wrong

• A claim that a person makes but cannot always prove it - people

  believe to be true but is not backed up by facts

• Statement that explain how the evidence supports and con-

  nects to the claim.

To reply quickly often with a witty and/or sharp response - sarcastically

• Bridge/Warrant

• Retort

• Audience

• Candid

Who will be affected by the topic? Who will read the essay?

• evidence

• claim

• rectify

• audience

To speculate means to...

• answer rudely; to be curt

• to reply quickly often with a witty and/or sharp response - sarcastically

• to guess without evidence

• correct; to set straight or make right something

To prove something to be true is termed...

• verify

• bridge

• hook

• thesis

Candid is defined as...

• evidence

• thesis

• hook

• completely honest, straightforward - informal

If you attempt to rectify something then you are trying to do what?

• to correct; to set straight (make right) something

• to guess without evidence

• make a claim and support it using logic

• demonstrate why the counterargument is wrong