Useful Words for College Essay Vocabulary - Week 4.02

A disdainful grimace

• Moue
• Polemic
• Epistle
• Rhetoric

A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion

• Heresy
• Gesticulate
• Axiom
• Conjecture

The cognitive process of conjecturing

• Supposition
• Panegyric
• Encomium
• Aphorism

A verbal or written attack, especially of a belief or dogma

• Polemic
• Epistle
• Equivocate
• Heresy

Showing an inclination to disagree

• Disputatious
• Moue
• Supposition
• Apocryphal

Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

• Equivocate
• Gesticulate
• Rhetoric
• Epistle

Being of questionable authenticity

• Apocryphal
• Polemic
• Encomium
• Conjecture

Believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

• Conjecture
• Axiom
• Epistle
• Aphorism

A specially long, formal letter

• Epistle
• Supposition
• Disputatious
• Panegyric

A proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof

• Axiom
• Equivocate
• Moue
• Aphorism