Twelve Angry Men Vocabulary

a jury that cannot reach a verdict

• coroner

• hung jury

• acquit

• belligerently

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the exclusive control of

• perjury

• bigot

• verdict

• monopoly

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a fault or error between conflicting facts or claims

• discrepancy

• foreman

• naive

• bigot

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to find the defendant innocent/not guilty

• abstain

• beyond a reasonable doubt

• preliminary

• acquit

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

to make someone become hostile or unfriendly

• sadist

• alibi

• antagonize

• cross-examine

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

refuse to testify when doing so might incriminate oneself

• double jeopardy

• beyond a reasonable doubt

• perjury

• plead the Fifth

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law

• foreman

• defendant

• prosecution

• sadist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others

• sadist

• naive

• hung jury

• defendant

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

rule that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime

• plead the Fifth

• perjury

• double jeopardy

• belligerently

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

the decision a jury makes in a trial

• premeditate

• foreman

• verdict

• alibi

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10