"Just Mercy" Vocabulary

Litigation

A legal proceeding in a court

Disillusioned

Freed from false ideas/disenchanted

Esoteric

Understandable only by an enlightened inner circle

Formidable

Extremely impressive in strength or excellence/unnerving or powerful

Unprecedented

Novel, revolutionary, and unknown/having no earlier occurrence

Indigent

Poor enough to need help from others/impoverished

Confluence

A place where things, factors, ideas, cultures, or other people merge or flow together

Miscegenation

Marriage or reproduction by people of different races

Vindicate

Show to be right by providing justification/proof

Pervade

Spread or diffuse through

Affluent

Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

Mitigate

Lessen/attempt to lessen the seriousness or extent of something harsh

Exculpatory

Clearing of guilt or blame

Adjudicate

Hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial/resolve or bring to an end

Egregious

Conspicuously and outrageously bad or appalling

Cursory

Hasty and without attention to detail/not thorough

Scrupulously

With extreme conscientiousness/carefulness

Dispassionate

Unaffected by strong emotion/impartial and objective

Garish

Tastelessly showy, tacky, or flashy

Empathic

Spoken with particular stress/forceful and definite in expression or action

Embellishment

The act of adding extraneous decorations to something

Contentious

Showing an inclination to disagree/involving or likely to cause controversy

Ambivalence

Mixed or conflicting feelings or emotions

Incarceration

The state of being imprisoned

Indelible

Not able to be removed or erased