Texas V Johnson Vocab

Question 1

Modicum

Answer 1

Small amount offered as a symbol or gesture

Question 2

Rebutted

Answer 2

Opposed using reasons and evidence

Question 3

Dogma

Answer 3

Principles or beliefs that an authority insists are true

N

Question 4

Dissenter

Answer 4

One who disagrees or refuses to accept

N

Question 5

Orthodoxy

Answer 5

Traditionally accepted codes and customs

N

Question 6

Sanctity

Answer 6

Sacredness or ultimate importance

N

Question 7

Compulsion

Answer 7

Forced obligation

N

Question 8

Implicit

Answer 8

Understood but not expressed

Adj

Question 9

Reaffirmation

Answer 9

The act of verifying or endorsing again

N

Question 10

Resilience

Answer 10

Ability to return to a normal state after a change or an injury
N

Question 11

Joust

Answer 11

Competition

Question 12

Icon

Answer 12

Symbol of deeply held values

Question 13

Fortified

Answer 13

To make strong

V

Question 14

Bombardment

Answer 14

To attack with bombs

V

Question 15

Denotative

Answer 15

Having the power to mark or sign off

V

Question 16

Connotative

Answer 16

(of a word or expression) signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning
Adj

Question 17

Concomitant

Answer 17

existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying
Adj

Question 18

Prohibition

Answer 18

The act to forbid by authority or law

N