Vocabulary 15

COUNTERINTUITIVE (adj)CONTRARY (CONFLICTING) TO WHAT INTUITION OR COMMON SENSE WOULD SUGGEST

CRITIQUE (n)A DETAILED ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY A LITERARY, PHILOSOPHICAL, OR POLITICAL THEORY

PARADOXICAL (adj)SEEMINGLY ABSURD OR SELF-CONTRADICTORY

That when we live no more, we may live ever.

-Anne Bradstreet

ANECDOTE (n)A SHORT AND AMUSING OR INTERESTING STORY ABOUT A REAL INCIDENT OR PERSON

ALLEGORY (n)A STORY, POEM, OR PICTURE THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED TO REVEAL A HIDDEN MEANING, TYPICALLY A MORAL LESSON

EXPLICIT (adj)STATED CLEARLY AND IN DETAIL, LEAVING NO ROOM FOR CONFUSION, DOUBT, OR MISUNDERSTANDING

IMPLICIT (adj)CAPABLE OF BEING UNDERSTOOD ALTHOUGH NOT DIRECTLY EXPRESSED OR STATED

JUXTAPOSE (v)

TO PLACE SIDE BY SIDE, ESPECIALLY FOR COMPARISON OR CONTRAST

ACCESSIBILITY (n)SOMETHING THAT IS EASILY GAINED OR ACHIEVED

CONTRADICTION (n)A STATEMENT OR PHRASE THAT ASSERTS OR IMPLIES BOTH THE TRUTH AND FALSITY OF SOMETHING