Exercise: Are You Familiar with the Word, "Meretricious?" Provide a Definition

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Short Answer

Exercise: Are you familiar with the word, "meretricious?" Provide a definition. If the term is unfamiliar, make a guess about its meaning based on its appearance or sound, and create your own definition. Then look the word up, and find out how close you got. (We provide a thumbnail meaning as answer.)

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Definitions:

Tenacity

A way of knowing based on accepting knowledge, correctly or incorrectly, because it has stood the test of time.

Test of Time

The ability of something to remain useful, valuable, or relevant over a long period.

Epistemological Questions

Queries regarding the nature, scope, and sources of knowledge.

Two-tailed Hypothesis

A statistical test hypothesis that allows for the possibility of an effect in two directions, either greater than or less than a specified range or parameter.