Final: Just Mercy + Letter from Birmingham Jail Vocab + The Fire Next Time + The Best We Could Do

Substantive

Having real importance or value (Adjective, meaningful)

Exculpate

To show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing (Verb, acquit)

Contentious

Inclined or showing an inclination to disagree or dispute (Adjective, argumentative)

Vindicate

To free from allegation or blame, to avenge (Verb, absolve)

Adamant

Refusing to be persuaded or change one’s mind, Unshakable, especially in maintaining a position or opinion (adjective, hard nosed, inflexible)

Pervade

To become diffused throughout every part, To be present and apparent throughout (verb, riddle)

Ominous

Being or exhibiting an omen, foreboding or foreshadowing evil (adjective, threatening)

Punitive

Inflicting or intending as punishment, disciplinary

Divisive

Tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people, isolating

Litigation

The process of taking legal action, lawsuit

Ambivalence

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone, conflicted

Plight

An unfortunate, difficult, or precarious situation, trouble, difficulty

Deplore

To hate something, detest

Lament

To express sorrow or regret, grieve

Paradox

Something that feels impossible or contradictory but might be true, conflict

Complacency

A feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to change them, even if they should be, pride

Repudiate

To refuse to accept or be associated with something, reject, abandon

Admonish

To gently scold or advise someone about their behavior, scold, lecture

Truculent

quick to argue, aggressively self-assertive

Unassailable

not liable to doubt, attack or question, untouchable

Sullen

gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed, cheerless

Assuage

to lessen the intensity of something the pains or distresses, alleviate

Metamorphosis

change of physical form, structure, or substance, transformation

Inflection

change in pitch or loudness of the voice, rhythm

Servile

having or showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others, fawning

Sordid

dirty, bringing about moral distaste or contempt, sleezy

Inexorable

not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped, relentless

Semblance

the way smt appears or seems to be

Monopolized

to take over completely so that others cannot share

Ineptitude

lack of skill or ability

Memoir

a story someone writes about a special time or event in their own life

Cadre

a small group of people who are specially trained for a particular purpose

Menial

work that is boring, needs little skill, and is not important

Cataclysmic

smt that causes a big and sudden disaster or change

Requisitioned

to ask for and get something officially

Effete

weak or tired; lacking energy