U.S. Vocab Academic 1.5

indictment

• denial of the right to vote

• to be accused in court

• introduction

• to demonstrate

alleged

• a type of reptile that lives in swamps

• terrible

• children

• accused/supposed

posterity

• people in the future/one's children

• people in the past/history

• what you eat after a meal

• mail service

preamble (such as to the Constitution)

• conclusion

• disagreement

• terrible

• introduction

bill of attainder

• Supreme Court tool

• sentencing after a trial

• law that allows punishment without trial

• protections

ex post facto law

• law making something illegal AFTER it has been done

• law that makes something illegal BEFORE it has been done

• when a soccer ball hits a post and goes out, the goalie takes it

• rule by a small group

odious

• introduction

• bad-smelling

• of a high socialclass

• terrible

aristocrat

• having no power

• high social class

• strong

• low social class

oligarchy

• rule by a small group of people over a much larger one

• law making something illegal AFTER the fact

• rule by the people

• accusation in court

ordain

• children

• terrible

• to deny

• to declare/state