Question: The definition “Sports utility vehicle’ means an unwieldy pile of vehicular machinery that consumes massive quantities of fuel, emits inordinate amounts of polluting gasses, and is prone to roll over in crashes” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A precising definition.
b. A persuasive definition.
c. A theoretical definition.
d. An automotive definition.
e. An operational definition.
Answer: b. A persuasive definition.
Question: The definition “Reptile’ means a snake, lizard, turtle, crocodile, and so on” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A precising definition.
b. An enumerative definition.
c. A persuasive definition.
d. A demonstrative definition.
e. A definition by subclass.
Answer: b. An enumerative definition.
Question: The definition “A smooth surface is ‘level’ if and only if a marble placed on any part of the surface doesn’t roll” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A definition by genus and difference.
b. An operational definition.
c. A lexical definition.
d. A definition by subclass.
e. A stipulative definition.
Answer: b. An operational definition.
Question: The definition “‘Jurist’ means someone such as William Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Oliver Wendell Holmes” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A definition by subclass.
b. An operational definition.
c. An enumerative definition.
d. A demonstrative definition.
e. A stipulative definition.
Answer: c. An enumerative definition.
Question: The definition “‘Soft’ means, in regard to water, containing less than 60 milligrams of dissolved calcium and magnesium per liter” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A precising definition.
b. An operational definition.
c. A synonymous definition.
d. A hydrostatic definition.
e. An etymological definition.
Answer: a. A precising definition.
Question: The definition “‘Pusillanimous’ means cowardly” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A demonstrative definition.
b. A theoretical definition.
c. A definition by genus and difference.
d. A synonymous definition.
e. A precising definition.
Answer: d. A synonymous definition.
Question: The definition “Burn’ means to give off heat by combining with oxygen; to oxidize” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A persuasive definition.
b. An extensional definition.
c. A definition by genus and difference.
d. A thermodynamic definition.
e. A theoretical definition.
Answer: e. A theoretical definition.
Question: The definition “‘Desk’ means that and that and that” (as you point to a number of desks) is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. A lexical definition.
b. A demonstrative definition.
c. A definition by subclass.
d. An enumerative definition.
e. A precising definition.
Answer: b. A demonstrative definition.
Question: The definition “Retain’ derives from the Latin words tenere which means hold, and re, which mean back” is an example of:
Answer Choices:
a. An etymological definition.
b. A stipulative definition.
c. A synonymous definition.
d. An operational definition.
e. An ostensive definition.
Answer: a. An etymological definition.
Question: In the definition “‘Robin’ means a large North American songbird having a chestnut-red breast and abdomen” the genus term is:
Answer Choices:
a. Abdomen.
b. Songbird.
c. Robin.
d. Chestnut-red breast and abdomen.
e. North American.
Answer: b. Songbird.
Question: In the definition “‘Martyr’ means a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion” the species term is:
Answer Choices:
a. Who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
b. Who willingly suffers death.
c. Person.
d. Martyr.
e. Religion.
Answer: c. Person.
Question: In the definition “‘Nest’ means a bowl-shaped structure prepared by a bird for incubating eggs and rearing young” the difference words are (select the best answer):
Answer Choices:
a. Nest, structure.
b. Prepared by a bird.
c. Bowl-shaped, prepared by a bird for incubating eggs and rearing young.
d. Bowl-shaped structure.
e. For incubating eggs and rearing young.
Answer: c. Bowl-shaped, prepared by a bird for incubating eggs and rearing young.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Clock’ means an electrical device that keeps time” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being figurative.
b. Being ambiguous.
c. Being too broad.
d. Being negative.
e. Being too narrow.
Answer: e. Being too narrow.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Congruence’ means the condition of being congruent” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being figurative.
b. Being circular.
c. Being obscure.
d. Being affective.
e. Being vague.
Answer: b. Being circular.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Mop’ means a terminally attached particulate disengager” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being circular.
b. Being figurative.
c. Being obscure.
d. Being affective.
e. Being vague.
Answer: a. Being circular.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Intelligible’ means not being unintelligible” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being negative.
b. Being too broad.
c. Being figurative.
d. Failing to convey the essential meaning of the word being defined.
e. Being too narrow.
Answer: a. Being negative.
Question: As a lexical definition, Lord Webb-Johnson’s multiple definition “A neurotic is a person who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is a man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is a man who collects the rent” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being negative.
b. Being obscure.
c. Being figurative.
d. Being ambiguous.
e. Being circular.
Answer: c. Being figurative.
Question: As a lexical definition, Ambrose Bierce’s definition of logic as “The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being too broad.
b. Being too narrow.
c. Being negative.
d. Being figurative.
e. Being affective.
Answer: e. Being affective.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Warhead’ means the uppermost section of a guided missile” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being too narrow.
b. Being too broad.
c. Failing to indicate the context to which the definiens pertains.
d. Failing to convey the essential meaning of the word being defined.
e. Being obscure.
Answer: d. Failing to convey the essential meaning of the word being defined.
Question: As a lexical definition, the definition “‘Poem’ means a composition that expresses feelings” may be criticized as:
Answer Choices:
a. Being affective.
b. Being vague.
c. Being ambiguous.
d. Failing to indicate the context to which the definiens pertains.
Answer: b. Being vague.