Vocabulary Project - Group 9: Just Mercy Vocabulary

Vocabulary practice cards focusing on key words, parts of speech, and definitions related to the Just Mercy presentation by Amanda C and Santina A.

Seething

Extremely angry but unable or unwilling to express it clearly.

Extramarital affair

A sexual relationship between a married person and someone they are not married to.

Perils

Great danger, or something that is very dangerous.

Ordeal

A very unpleasant and painful or difficult experience.

Summoning

To officially order someone to come to a place.

Bluntly

If you speak bluntly, you speak without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings.

Pervasive

Present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place.

Predicament

An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of.

Emancipation

The process of giving people social or political freedom and rights.

Subordinate

Having a lower or less important position.

Ominously

In a way that suggests that something unpleasant is likely to happen.

Distraught

Extremely worried, nervous, or upset.

Lingering

Lasting a long time.

Scuffle

A short and sudden fight, especially one involving a small number of people.

Clerk

A person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general office duties.

Shackles

Chains used to fasten together prisoners' arms or legs.

Litigation

The process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made.

Exonerated

To show or state that someone or something is not guilty of something.

Hostility

An occasion when someone is unfriendly or shows that they do not like something.

Strive

To try very hard to do or achieve something.

Emancipation (Systemic context)

The process of giving people social or political freedom and rights.

Lynch

If a crowd of people lynch someone who they believe is guilty of a crime, they kill them without a legal trial, usually by hanging.

Reluctant

Not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it.

Clemency

Kindness when giving a punishment.

Redemption

The state of being kept from evil or of improving morally.