Unit 2 Vocabulary: Free Speech and Social Media

to reduce or lessen in scope

• concede

• discern

• abridge

• argue

to right a wrong

• redress

• abridge

• discern

• fix

to claim; to state as the truth

• dissent

• contend

• lie

• concur

To have the same opinion as someone

• argue

• concede

• abridge

• concur

to see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear

• discern

• abridge

• focus

• concur

to forbid or make illegal

• control

• contend

• prohibit

• precedent

a past decision that can be used to guide future decisions

• infringe

• precedent

• intuition

• president

to violate someone’s freedom or rights

• abridge

• redress

• illegal

• infringe

to hold or express an opinion different from that of the majority

• discern

• minority

• dissent

• concur

to form or establish

• make

• club

• constitute

• prohibit