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Unit 1 - Writing Freedom Vocabulary

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which term describes rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that cannot be surrendered?

a)

prolific

b)

prescribed

c)

unalienable

d)

imperial

2.

To accept something reluctantly but without protest is to do what?

a)

assent

b)

exercise

c)

acquiesce

d)

redress

3.

A government that is cruel and oppressive is best described as what?

a)

fiat

b)

vigilant

c)

rectitude

d)

tyranny

4.

Which word means to agree to or approve of something after consideration?

a)

ratify

b)

petitioned

c)

acquiesce

d)

assent

5.

In a civics context, to exercise power means what?

a)

sign a treaty officially

b)

write formal requests

c)

use governmental authority

d)

remedy an unfair outcome

6.

A formal written request to authority, often signed by many people, is called a what?

a)

decree

b)

fiat

c)

petition

d)

edict

7.

Which term means to remedy or set right an undesirable situation?

a)

ratify

b)

enact

c)

abolish

d)

redress

8.

To give formal consent to a treaty, making it officially valid, is to do what?

a)

inaugurate

b)

redress

c)

enact

d)

ratify

9.

To make a bill into law is to what?

a)

enact

b)

prescribe

c)

ratify

d)

petition

10.

Someone keeping careful watch for possible danger is being what?

a)

sovereign

b)

vigilant

c)

prolific

d)

rectitude

11.

Unanimous means what in decision making?

a)

plurality support

b)

simple majority

c)

executive veto

d)

complete agreement

12.

To abolish an institution means to do what?

a)

watch carefully

b)

remove or end

c)

approve reluctantly

d)

make into law

13.

Annihilation most nearly means what?

a)

complete destruction

b)

official approval

c)

moral correction

d)

formal request

14.

If someone is absolved, they are what?

a)

elevated to office

b)

bound by treaty

c)

freed from obligation

d)

guilty of treason

15.

To actively break the terms or agreement of a contract is

a)

assent

b)

alienate

c)

abolish

d)

infringed

16.

Morally correct behavior or thinking is

a)

reason

b)

rectitude

c)

redress

d)

respect