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21specious — speciously, adv. speciousness, n. /spee sheuhs/, adj. 1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments. 2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive. 3. Obs. pleasing to the eye; fair. [1350… …
22western Africa, history of — Introduction history of the region from the 11th century to the present. A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… …
23Buddhism — • The religious, monastic system, founded c. 500 B.C. on the basis of pantheistic Brahminism Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Buddhism Buddhism …
24Modernism — • Etymologically, modernism means an exaggerated love of what is modern, an infatuation for modern ideas Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Modernism Modernism …
25plausibility — noun a) The quality of being plausible; speciousness. b) Anything plausible or specious …
26Character mask — Part of a series on Marxism …
27fallaciousness — I noun aberrancy, aberration, bad faith, casuistry, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, defectiveness, delusion, deviation, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, fallacy, falseness, faultiness, faulty reasoning, fraudulence, illogic,… …
28acting — Synonyms and related words: act, action, active, activism, activity, ad interim, affectation, aping, appearance, at work, attitudinizing, behavior, behavioral, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring,… …
29affectation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, Gongorism, act, acting, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectedness, air, airs, appearance, artfulness, artifice, artificiality, attitudinizing, bearing, bedizenment, behavior, behavior pattern,… …
30appearance — Synonyms and related words: Christophany, Masan, Prospero, Satanophany, accomplishment, achievement, acting, advent, affectation, air, airiness, angelophany, apparent character, apparition, appearances, approach, arrival, aspect, astral, astral… …
