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Rhetorical
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is abstruse. Does it mean:
| extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act |
| difficult to comprehend |
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rhetorical
late 15c., "eloquent," from L. rhetoricus (see rhetoric). Meaning "pertaining to rhetoric" is from 1520s. Rhetorical question is from 1843.
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