Lying Unit Vocabulary

moral

• standard used in judging

• a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do.

• not conforming to accepted standards of morality

• to weaken

Dangerous; risky; lacking in security or stability

• precarious

• agonizing

• nuanced

• ubiquitous

swindle

• In an opposite manner; in an altogether different way

• showing emotion based on sensitivity towards others

• lack of consistency or fixed pattern; liability to vary or change.

• to cheat out of money or property

present or existing everywhere

• ubiquitous

• implicit

• explicit

• tenable

lack of consistency or fixed pattern; liability to vary or change.

• criterion

• immoral

• variability

• trivial

Match the following

• capable of being held or defended

• nuanced

• harmful; damaging

• preserve

• to keep safe from harm

• agonizing

• very painful

• detrimental

• having subtle differences in meaning

• tenable

done for a good or legitimate reason

• trivial

• justified

• empathic

• motive

Match the following

• not directly stated

• implicit

• complex or intricate

• explicit

• (v.) to scold; find fault with; (n.) a rebuke

• reprimand

• Done to prevent something

• sophisticated

• Clearly and directly expressed; leaving nothing implied

• preemptively

criterion

• a reason for doing something. The Why

• harmful; damaging

• position from which there is a clear-cut right or wrong response for every ethical decision

• standard used in judging

An ​ (a)   position is one in which there is a ​ (b)   right or wrong answer

• absolutist
• clear-cut
• ambiguous
• tenable
• nuanced