PR Vocab List #1

Cogent

• Easily understood; clear

• Convincing; reasonable

• Not able to be denied or disputed

• To free from blame

Didactic

• Convincing; reasonable

• To free from guilt or blame

• Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

• Intended to instruct

Lucid

• Easily understood; clear

• Not able to be denied or disputed

• A judge who decides a disputed issue

• Domineering; oppressively overbearing

Arbiter

• A judge who decides a disputed issue

• Feeling hatred; scornful

• Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

• Domineering; oppressively overbearing

*Exculpate

• To free from guilt or blame

• Not able to be denied or disputed

• To free from blame

• Support with proof or evidence; verified

Incontrovertible

• Domineering; oppressively overbearing

• Not able to be denied or disputed

• Contempt; scorn

• Feeling hatred; scornful

Penitent

• Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds

• to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on

• Domineering; oppressively overbearing

• Exercising absolute power; tyrannical

Substantiate

• Feeling hatred; scornful

• Intended to instruct

• Convincing; reasonable

• Support with proof or evidence; verified

*Vindicate

• Exercising absolute power; tyrannical

• To free from guilt or blame

• To free from blame

• Domineering; oppressively overbearing

Contemptuous

• A judge who decides a disputed issue

• Exercising absolute power; tyrannical

• To free from blame

• Expressing remorse for one’s misdeeds