Words used in Debating and Criticism: Increase Your Vocabulary

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To repudiate something means to deny it happens . In a business setting this is commonly used in the term non-repudiation which refers to receipts and electronic records which can confirm that a transaction has been completed
To engender something means to give rise to it. It is most commonly used to do with some kind of feeling or attitude for example, ‘her writing engenders anger’
Compare and contrast are often used near to each other and both mean looking at 2 different ideas or things. Contrast concentrates on the difference, it means to find out where the 2 things you are looking at differ. Compare is a more even term meaning to look at them both, and find similarities and differnces
A Conclusion is something at the end of a piece of writing, that sums it up. It also means any kind of thoughts someone has arrived by thinking carefully. A deduction can mean the same thing, in the latter sense. The word deduction emphasizes the logic of the thought process. Human thought is not always a mechanical series of steps, and the word ‘conclusion’ is more generally used of any kind of thought process. But deduction is following a set series of steps and looking at the evidence completely logically an inference is used in the same way as conclusion, but it is not generally indicating the end of a thought process, like conclusion is. Inference is commonly used talking about smaller points of fact that have been arrived at by reasoning
When an argument is refuted by some one it is shown to be incorrect. This word has also come to to mean to deny something. In formal situations there is some disagreement over whether this is acceptable, but when someone denies something by providing evidence

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