debate vocabulary 1
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- Acrimony
- a sharp and bitter manner (crankiness, harshness)
- Subvert
- to destroy completely; ruin (corrupt, defeat, demolish, destroy)
- Militant
- engaged in war (active, aggressive, assertive)
- Condone
- To overlook, forgive (disregard, excuse, forget, forgive)
- Preeminent
- greatest in importance (capital, chief, distinguished, dominant)
- Exaltation
- A state or feeling of intense, often excessive exhilaration or well-being (high rank, honor, idolization
- Dichotomy
- a division or forking into branches
- Proselytize
- to induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith
- Fallacy
- a false notion (misconception
- Eschew
- To avoid; shun (abandon, avoid, evade)
- Sacrosanct
- Regarded as sacred and inviolable (divine, enthroned, exalted, glorified, holy)
- Partisan
- a weapon having a blade with lateral projections mounted on the end of a long shaft, used chiefly in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Paramount
- supreme in rank, power, or authority
- Fundamentalism
- the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
- Gullible
- Easily deceived or duped
- Profligate
- Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant
- Rudiments
- a fundamental element, principle, or skill, as of a field of learning
- Espouse
- to give one's loyalty or support to (adopt)
- Autonomy
- a self-governing state, community, or group
- Consensus
- General agreement or accord