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Chapter 6
Question | Answer |
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Unresolved | not settled, solved, or brought to resolution |
Regulations | a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority |
Controversial | prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention |
Heinous | utterly wicked; evil or morally wrong |
Perpetrators | person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act |
Accountability | willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions |
Correspondence | a close similarity, connection, or equivalence |
Superficial | concerned with what is obvious or apparent; affecting only the outer part or surface of something |
Incident | an event or occurrence |
Suspicious | having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something |
Scenario | a written outline of a movie, novel, or stage work giving details of the plot and individual scenes |
Accosted | approach and address someone boldly or aggressively |
Resist | to fight against |
Oppression | prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control |
Apartheid | a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. |
Exonerated | to clear of an accusation; free from guilt or blame |
Injustice | lack of fairness |
Culpability | responsibility for a fault or wrong; blame |
Prosecutorial misconduct | Hiding, destroying or tampering with evidence, case files or court records; Failing to disclose evidence that might tend to exonerate the defendant |
Incarceration | the state of being confined in prison; imprisonment |