DOWN TO "RTH"
3 C's
HAVING AN ARGUMENT
AROUND NEW YORK
GETTING THE "AX'
ENDS WITH 2 VOWELS
400

It precedes
Pole, Sea & Star

North

400

Adjective meaning so small it can't be seen with the naked eye

microscopic

400

"My car has started every day. So my car will start today" is an example of this type of argument, the counterpart of deductive

inductive

400

Visit the boardwalk & ride the over 80-year-old Wonder Wheel at this nostalgic amusement resort

Coney Island

400

It's a large aggregate of stars

galaxy

400

It's the "Keystone State"

Pennsylvania

800

Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking

a hearth

800

3-"c" word for the thin red feature on top of a rooster's head

cockscomb

800

Senator, 2 minutes for this segment of a debate, to attack elements of the prior argument such as its assumptions or its relevance

a rebuttal

800

his New York neighborhood is home to the National Black Theater as well as the famed Apollo

Harlem

800

It's the capital of Nova Scotia, eh

Halifax

800

It's the African-American harvest festival that begins on December 26

Kwanzaa

1200

Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one?

a berth

1200

It's a pastoral letter written by the pope on matters of doctrine

encyclical

1200

To do this to "the question" is a logical error in argument, but now it's often used to mean simply "bring up the question"

to beg

1200

Built in 1902, this distinctive-looking building is one of New York's oldest & most famous skyscrapers

the Flatiron Building

1200

A succinct formulation of a principle or truth

axiom/maxim

1200

A first-year player on a sports team, or any novice or beginner

a rookie

1600

It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist

girth

1600

In Italian cuisine, this preparation of thinly sliced beef makes for appetizing appetizers

carpaccio

1600

An argument a fortiori, from Latin for this comparative word, is like "If turtles are slow, turtles in molasses must also be slow"

stronger

1600

opular name for the area along Seventh Avenue, south of 42nd Street, with stores full of notions & fabrics

the Garment District

1600

The pattern of formation of sentences or phrases in a language

syntax

1600

This type of warrior wore 2 swords & lived by the code of Bushido

a Samurai

2000

In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde

firth

2000

Adjective for a letdown, like the end of "The Epic of Gilgamesh"--the hero's quest for a magic plant... ends without it

anticlimactic

2000

This Latin phrase once meant arguing by appealing to someone's personal feelings; now it means an irrelevant personal attack

ad hominem

2000

You don't have to be a monk to visit this branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that's devoted to Medieval art

the Cloisters

2000

It's the small African mammal seen here

hyrax

2000

Sound the trumpets! He succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites

Joshua

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