Glossary of Important Terms

A

• Agreement: A mutual understanding between people.
• Amend: To change or improve something.
• Analyze: To separate something into parts and examine them.
• Approach: To come closer or near.
• Argument: A strong disagreement.

B

• Banish: To make someone leave a place.

C

• Campaign: A series of actions toward a goal.
• Characteristic: A specific feature.
• Citizen: A person who is a member of a country.
• Compare: To look at how things are alike.
• Complaint: To tell others that you are unhappy.
• Conflict: A fight between two or more people or groups.
• Connection: Things in common.
• Culture: A set of beliefs and customs.

D

• Damage: Harm that is done.
• Debate: To discuss different views.
• Delegate: A person who has power to speak for others.
• Democracy: The power to vote for what people believe in.
• Desperate: Having lost hope.
• Destroy: To completely ruin.
• Diplomat: Someone who represents a government.

E

• Effect: The result of an action or cause.
• Element: A part of a whole.
• Evaluate: To assess the quality of something.

F

• Focus: To pay attention.
• Forbid: To order someone not to do something.
• Furious: Very angry.

G

• Government: The people in charge of a country.
• Grief: To feel very sad.

H

• Humanity: Caring about others.

I

• Identify: To tell what something is.
• Impact: To have an effect.
• Independence: Freedom from control.
• Inevitable: Certain to happen no matter what.
• Informed: Having knowledge.
• Innocence: Without guilt.
• Insist: To demand or keep saying something.
• Interpret: To explain the intended meaning of something.
• Issue: A problem or traumatic experience.

J

• Judgment: The ability to make good decisions.
• Justice: Fairness.

L

• Literal: The exact meaning of something.
• Logical: Reasonable or sensible.

M

• Memory: Something remembered.
• Mercy: Kindness to someone in trouble.

O

• Obey: To follow an order.
• Organize: To arrange things in order.
• Origin: The source or beginning.

P

• Permission: Being allowed to do something.
• Persuade: To try to make others agree.
• Petition: A written request for a leader to take action.
• Plan: How to do something in the future.
• Plead: To strongly ask for something.
• Politics: People's beliefs about government.
• Punishment: A penalty.
• Purpose: A reason to do something.

R

• Reality: What actually happens in life.
• Recall: To remember.
• Refugee: People who leave their country to be safe.
• Relate: To show how things are connected.
• Relent: To stop.
• Represent: To act for a person or group.
• Response: An answer to something that has been said.

S

• Scale: A graphic organizer.
• Structure: How parts are arranged.
• Support: People who help you.
• Symbol: An object that stands for something else.

T

• Translate: To explain in another language.

V

• Volunteer: To work without pay.

W

• Willful: Refusing to change.