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Twelve Angry Men
Vocabulary from Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Articulate | clearly express ideas and emotions through words |
| Abstain | formally decline to vote for a proposal or a motion |
| Dispute | to argue or disagree about a topic |
| Hesitant | unsure or slow in acting or speaking |
| Ignorant | without knowledge or awareness; uneducated; unsophisticated |
| Infallible | incapable of making mistakes |
| Mandatory | required by rules or law |
| Peculiar | odd, unusual |
| Arrogant | overly confident and rude; disdainful swagger |
| Unanimous | in common; including all participants |
| Intolerant | refusing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that differ than your own |
| Bias | an unbalanced opinion; showing a preference towards one side of an argument, usually without sufficient evidence |
| Disclose | to make new or secret information known |
| Entitled | to have a right to something; to feel one has a right to something, even if one doesn’t |
| Insignificant | too small to be considered important; having little worth |
| Moral | good, upstanding; acting in a way that shows goodness |
| Perspective | an individual’s unique viewpoint or way of viewing a situation; often influenced by past experiences |
| Sanctimonious | making a show of being morally superior to others |
| Ridicule | cruel laughter or teasing meant to hurt or embarrass someone |
| Tendency | a habit or trend toward a specific type of thought or action |