3 Cheers Vocabulary Quiz (Week of Jan 17-20)

What is a negative nickname for a welfare state in which the government takes direct responsibility for protection and well-being of its citizens? (Also offer social support, such as free health care or low-income housing)

• snap/ebt

• "nanny state"

• governmental welfare

• WIC

To force a law, idea, or belief on someone by using authority.

• encourage

• influence

• persuade

• impose

Able to make decisions based on reason rather than emotions; sensible

• rational

• irrational

• decipher

• discern

Judgments and prejudices

• prejudice

• bias

• judgmental

• cognitive bias

Moral rule, or set of ideas about right or wrong that influences individuals to behave in a certain way

• good-morally

• principle

• annotate

• conclude

Able to be defended as correct; reasonable and logical

• justice

• defense attorney

• public defender

• justifiable

Related to thinking

• smart

• intelligent

• cognitive

• wise

Existing state or condition at a particular time (not wanting to accept anything new, even if it's an improvement, because we are content with what we have already)

• status quote

• status quo

• quotient

• patient

Thinking that however likely a thing is to happen to most people, it WON'T happen to us.

• optimism quo

• optimistic

• optimism bias

• quotient patient

New York city passed a law prohibiting soda containers larger than 16 ounces in volume

• soda ban

• pop band

• soda band

• drink ban