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Chapter 6
Vocabulary Study guide
Term | Definition | Page |
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Unresolved | Not settled, solved or brought to a regulation | Pg. 301 |
Regulations | Law or rule; to govern; conduct | Pg. 301 |
Controversial | Relating to a subject that is against popular belief or debatable; argument | Pg. 301 |
Heinous | Horrible or hateful action | Pg. 310 |
Perpetrators | Person who commits a crime or illegal action | Pg. 309 |
Accountability | Person held responsible | Pg. 310 |
Correspondence | Communication between people or exchange of letters | Pg. 310 |
Superficial | Caring about surface level than deeper meaning; shallow | Pg. 309 |
Incident | Event that happened or occurrence | Pg. 314 |
Suspicious | Incite question or distrust | Pg. 314 |
Scenario | Outline or plot in a story | Pg. 315 |
Accosted | Confrontation | Pg. 313 |
Resist | To withstand; strive against or oppose | Pg. 314 |
Oppression | Exercise of authority or power in a burden some cruel manner; feeling heavily burdened or enduring adverse conditions | Pg. 328 |
Apartheid | System that separates people by race; ethnicity, color, religion, etc. | Pg. 327 |
Exonerated | To clear from accusation; free from guilt or blame | Pg. 327 |
Injustice | Unjust or inequality; treat unfairly | Pg. 329 |
Culpability | Guilt or blame that is deserved; blamed worthiness | Pg. 327 |
Prosecutorial misconduct | Wrong-doing by the prosecutor by breaking the code of conduct or ethnics | Pg. 330 |
Incarceration | Imprisonment or jailed | Pg. 326 |