In a sentence
Six example sentences with rhetoric, each labelled with its topic.
Her rhetoric turned a dull budget hearing into a room full of people standing and cheering for road repairs.
Politics
Students of Roman rhetoric memorized which pause, gesture and repeated phrase would move a crowd toward a decision.
History
The pitch was all rhetoric and no numbers, yet three investors left the room convinced the company would win.
Startups
Aristotle treated rhetoric as a craft worth studying, listing the ways a speaker earns trust, stirs feeling, and proves a point.
Philosophy
The defense lawyer's rhetoric was plain and slow, and the jury trusted it more than the polished speeches from the other table.
Law
The coach's halftime rhetoric turned a ten point deficit into a scoring run before the third quarter was five minutes old.
Basketball
Study rhetoric until you keep it
Learn English words in sentences about topics you pick, with a quick quiz. With an account, words come back for review.
Found in these word lists
Found in 7 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- PrepScholar 357 GRE WordsRecognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains rhetoric. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.