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12 Angry Men Vocab

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sadism   when a person likes to see other people get hurt  
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bigot   a person who hates and is intolerant of certain people based on their prejudices  
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unanimous   100% agreement  
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naive   a person who lacks knowledge due to a lack of experience in a certain area  
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abstain   to hold back voluntarily  
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discrepancy   a difference, a mismatch  
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tenement   a slum, a run down apartment complex  
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writhing   continual twits and contortions of the body usually due to pain  
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conceivable   able to be imagined  
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premeditated   planned ahead of time  
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bias   favoring one type of person or thing over another  
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point of view   perspective from which something is viewed  
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stereotype   a generalization about one person applied to a whole group  
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protagonist   the leading character around whom the action of a story is set  
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antagonist   the character who opposes the main character  
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dynamic character   a character who grows or changes over the course of a story  
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static character   a character who remains the same and does not grow over the course of a story  
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flat character   a character who is NOT fully developed in a story and we don't see many of their characteristics  
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round character   a character who is fully developed and we see many sides of them and many of their characteristics  
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direct characterization   when the narration or narrator in a story tells us what a character is like  
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indirect characterization   they kind of characterization used when we need to infer character traits from what a character says, does, thinks, feel, how they look, or how they interact with others  
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