The Great Debaters Vocabulary Review

"A cruel, harsh and unfair government in which a person or small group of people have power over everyone else"

• Democracy

• Tyranny

• Anarchy

• Monarchy

"An argument or form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and logical conclusion is drawn from them"

• Soliloquy

• Fallacy

• Synecdoche

• Syllogism

"An organization that represents the rights and interests of workers to their employers, for example in order to improve working conditions"

• Labor Union

• Civil Disobedience

• Filibuster

• Conjecture

The policy of segregating black people from white people that used to be practiced in the United States is sometimes referred to as:

Fill in the Blank:

A __________ is a statement or an idea that people can consider or discuss to decide whether it is true

• Proposal

• Fallacy

• Proposition

• Syllogism

"An idea which many people believe to be true , but which is in fact false because it is based on incorrect information or reasoning"

• Fallacy

• Lying

• Deductive Reasoning

• False Ideology

"An inference, theory, or prediction based on guess work; guess"

• Resolution

• Premise

• Hypothesis

• Conjecture

"To contradict, refute, or oppose, especially in a formal manner by argument. proof, etc. as in a debate"

• Contradiction

• Rebut

• Premise

• Syllogism

When nobody seems to be paying attention to rules or laws

(ex. a society without a government)

"Something that you suppose is true and that you use as a basis for developing an idea"

• Premise

• Conclusion

• Statement

• Fact