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| likeness in some respects between things otherwise different; similarity; comparison |
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| autocratic; despotic; tyrannical; proceeding from a whim or fancy (ant. legitimate) |
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| to decide a dispute, acting as a judge |
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| self-evident truth; maxim |
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| narrow-mindedness; intolerance |
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| think over; consider with care; ponder; deliberate |
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| most important point; essential part |
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| situation requiring a choice between two equally bad alternatives; predicament |
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| asserting opinions as if they were facts; opinionated; asserted without proof; doctrinaire |
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| choosing (ideas, methods, etc.) from various sources; selective |
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| based on erroneous idea; misleading (ant. sound, valid) |
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| rejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines; heretical; nonconformist (ant. orthodox) |
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| certain; incontrovertible; indisputable (ant. questionable, doubtful) |
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| generally accepted, especially in religion; conventional; approved (ant. heterodox, unorthodox) |
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| having the characteristics of a self-contradictory statement which may nevertheless be true |
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| apparently trustworthy; superficially true or reasonable |
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| senseless; absurd; irrational |
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1. able to think clearly; having the power to reason
2. based on or agreeable to reason; intelligent; sensible; sane (ant. absurd) |
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| clever but deceptive reasoning |
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| superficially true, reasonable, attractive or just, but not really so |
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| capable of being maintained or defended |
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