Declaration of Independence Vocabulary

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• unwarrantable jurisdiction

• alienable rights

• unalienable rights

• consanguinity

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

Formally put an end to something.

• abolish

• prudence

• despotism

• usurpations

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

Cautiousness, being careful.

• adventurous

• audacious

• prudence

• foolhearted

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

Not long lasting/Not permanent

• magnanimity

• ostentatious

• enduring

• transient

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To make clear or to show

• vague

• evinces

• despotism

• redress

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 seize or exercise authority or possession wrongfully.

• petition

• inquire

• usurpations

• tyranny

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

The exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and opposite way.

• prudence

• despotism

• transient

• congenial

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 leader to rules cruelly and oppressively

• President

• King

• Tyrant

• Philanthropist

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

to make a formal request

• petition

• abolish

• invalid

• acquiesce

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

to fix or make something right

• abbaration

• conjured

• redress

• denounce

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