Savas: Ban the Ban! Vocabulary

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Implemented

• Root: From Latin implēre (to fill up, fulfill)

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• Meaning: Carried out or put into effect

• Example: The mayor implemented a new soda size law.

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Mandates

• Root: From Latin mandare (to command, entrust)

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Meaning: Orders or commands

• Example: The government issued mandates on soda sales.

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Intervene

• Root: From Latin intervenire (to come between)

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• Meaning: To interfere or take action to stop or change something

• Example: Officials decided not to intervene in personal drink choices.

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Exemption

• Root: From Latin eximere (to take out, remove)

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• Meaning: Permission to be free from a rule or requirement

• Example: Fruit juice had an exemption from the soda ban.

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Dictate

• Root: From Latin dictare (to say repeatedly, prescribe)

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• Meaning: To give orders or control something

• Example: The mayor was accused of dictating what people could drink.