Debate Vocabulary

Problem-solving method that involves a battle of ideas.

• affirmative

• debate

• argument

• negative

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Reason for favoring a particular side of a proposition.

• status quo

• argument

• case

• negative

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Statement of a point to be debated.

• refute

• negative

• negotiation

• proposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

No

• negative

• negotiation

• affirmative

• rebuttal

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Show how something is wrong.

• negotiation

• negative

• refute

• status quo

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"Yes"

• affirmative

• proposition

• case

• status quo

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Speech countering your opponent's attacks on your arguments.

• argument

• proposition

• rebuttal

• negotiation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech

• discourse

• speech

• rhetoric

• philosophy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is a "justification" in a debate?

• details, facts, quotes, and/or reasons that support a claim or prove it to be true

• the use of careful thought, reasoning, facts, and data

• the action of showing something to be right or reasonable (i.e. explaining how your evidence proves that the claim is correct)

• the right amount of facts to convince your audience, but not overwhelm or leave them with questions

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D