MLK Vocabulary- Day #2

Beacon

• lack of fairness or justice.

• a person or thing that warns, guides or offers support

• callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering.

• cured meat from the sides and belly of a pig, having distinct strips of fat and typically served in thin slices.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Withering

• intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated; intense or scorching

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

• the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Creed

• a system of Christian or other religious belief; a faith or a set of beliefs or aims which guide someone's actions.

• A Video game

• a list of items to be discussed at a formal meeting.

• a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Self-evident

• having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.

• lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

• withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

• not needing to be demonstrated or explained; obvious

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sweltering

• uncomfortably hot.

• intended to make someone feel mortified or humiliated.

• exude sweat.

• light or other visible object serving as a signal, warning, or guide at sea, on an airfield,

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Interposition

• he position of an individual in a given society and culture.

• gave Union states absolute authority to void any law created by the federal government.

• a claimed right of a U.S. state to oppose actions of the federal government that the state deems unconstitutional.

• the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution specified rights of individuals in which government could not interfere

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Nullification

• the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution specified rights of individuals in which government could not interfere

• separation of groups of people with differing characteristics, often taken to connote a condition of inequality.

• a legal theory that the U.S. states can refuse to comply with federal laws they deem to be unconstitutional.

• smaller than a population, bigger than a group - individuals in a society that can be distinguished by their history as well as their distinctive behavior, organization, culture, and perhaps, superficial biological features.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Discord

• means a state or condition marked by a lack of agreement or harmony amongst people

• Instrument not sounding in-sync

• lack of fairness or justice.

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A