Module 4: Breaking Barriers Vocabulary Study Guide

Commissary

a restaurant on a military base

Barracks

a building where soldiers live

Segregation

separating people based on the color of their skin. the act of separating people based on their ethnicity or color of their skin

Eloquent

persuasive in writing or speaking

Racial epithet

terms used to characterize people based on their race and are typically meant to harm the people they target

Baseball scout

an experienced talent expert whose job is to travel to watch athletes play and determine if they are talented enough to play professionally

Barrier

Something that prevents progress or makes it difficult for someone to achieve something; something that makes it difficult for people to understand each other

Bitter

Full of anger or sadness, angry, resentful

Sequence

To put something in a particular order

Logically

In a natural order that makes sense

Influence

To affect someone or something in an important way

Autocracy

A government with rule by one person

Democracy

A government in which people elect their own leaders or rulers

Vernacular

Language spoken by a group of people in a region or area

Slang

An informal way of speaking; harsh or coarse language

Opportunities

Chances to improve one's life or situation; favorable circumstances that make it possible to do something

Discrimination

Unfair or unequal treatment of an individual or group based on certain characteristics. Treating someone worse than someone else.

Racism

The belief that one group of people is better than another group of people, based on their race or skin color

Plagiarism

The act of using someone else's words as your own

Research

The study of information to learn more about something

Integration

the process of bringing together or ending separation

Draft

when men are required to enlist in the military

crat / cracy (root)

rule by, ruler

hostility

Unfriendliness or extreme dislike

challenge

To take a stand against something, especially something wrong or unjust. To boldly confront or take a stand against something, especially something wrong or unjust

resilience

the ability to recover from difficulty or change

synthesize

To combine separate things to produce something new or a whole

stereotype

An often unfair or untrue idea or belief about an entire group of people

baffled

Confused, puzzled

overcome, To successfully defeat; to gain a victory over

to defeat

zeal

Great enthusiasm for a person or cause

posit (root)

placed or put

paralyzed

Having lost the ability to move and/or feel anything in part or most of the body, often as a result of disease or injury to the spinal cord

para

At or to one side, beside, side by side

social norms

Rules or expectations about how people in a certain culture or society are supposed to behave

sculpture

A three-dimensional piece of art made by carving or molding clay, stone, metal, or other materials

trans

A change in form or position; beyond, across, or to the other side