What you can learn from the people who disagree you Flashcards

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period | /ˈpɪə.ri.əd/ ## Footnote noun

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a length of time ## Footnote The length between sentencing and execution actually puts the victim's families through an agonizing wait period

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causing extreme physical or mental pain ## Footnote an agonizing death

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(a) serious discussion of a subject in which many people take part ## Footnote Education is the current focus of public debate

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quan điểm ## Footnote My perspective was inherited

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to look at and study something, usually a book or document, carefully

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to have an upper and a lower limit in amount, number, etc. ## Footnote I pored over articles and data from sources ranging from the more liberal to the more conservative

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một cách mất cân xứng ## Footnote Capital punishment has been disproportionately applied to people of color

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to give someone official authority or the freedom to do something ## Footnote I started a nonpartisan initiative called Project TEAL to encourage and empower high school students to become politically involved

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sự công bằng ## Footnote We discuss a lot of different issues like education equity

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công lý ## Footnote There's no justice in the world when people can be made to suffer like that

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to develop gradually ## Footnote I remember being afraid that their conversation would evolve **into** an argument

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not even or smooth, often because of being in bad condition ## Footnote She came from a family that had been through a couple of rough instances with the police

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the way in which you are treated and educated when young, especially by your parents, especially in relation to the effect that this has on how you behave and make moral decisions ## Footnote Is it right to say all the crimes he committed were simply the result of his upbringing?

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behaviour in which you refuse to obey someone or something ## Footnote He came from an upbringing in which BLM was labeled as a movement in defiance of the police

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to reach into something or under the surface of something trying find an object ## Footnote They delve into a shouting match or call each other disrespectful names

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to publicly support or suggest an idea, development, or way of doing something ## Footnote We can better understand opposing perspectives, which can help us to better advocate for our own beliefs

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an agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demands or change their opinion in order to agree ## Footnote It even allows us to reach a compromise when the situation demands it

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the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example of this ## Footnote Bipartisan discourse

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relating to the ordinary people of a country ## Footnote I think the reason we were able to have that civil discourse was because we reconized that we were a part of a greater cause

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a time when people vote in order to choose someone for a political or official job ## Footnote American voters polled before the 2020 presidental election

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to ask a person for their opinion as part of a general study of what people think about a subject ## Footnote Half the people polled said they would pay more for environmentally friendly food

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a liking or sympathy for someone or something, especially because of shared characteristics ## Footnote We all have afinity groups that we can join

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to be or be considered as something ## Footnote What exactly constitutes as uncomfortable?

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traditional and ordinary ## Footnote Just talk about something that's unconventional

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to avoid ## Footnote Make sure to stay off your phone for this conversation

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unable to stop thinking about something ## Footnote She's pretty much obsessed with Tiktok

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a person who cannot stop doing or using something, especially something harmful ## Footnote I completely understand how addicting social media can be

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to be able to understand how someone else feels ## Footnote That allows us to see and empathize** with** one another

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to make something less unpleasant and more suitable for people ## Footnote By discussing polarizing issues online, we lose that person-to-person connection that really humanizes opposing perspectives

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a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation ## Footnote You will gain insight **into** people who think differently than you do

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very much ## Footnote Maybe you'll convince someone of a belief that you hold dearly

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sự tự nguyện ## Footnote I'm still scared of this polarization, this growing unwillingness to view those who politically disagree with us as human

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difficult to fight against ## Footnote She felt an overwhelming need to tell someone about what had happened

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to face, meet, or deal with a difficult situation or person ## Footnote I'm soon going to enter this reality where I'll be confronted with this division

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hệ tư tưởng ## Footnote I’ll be stereotyped and judged by my ideology

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exactly ## Footnote What do you think the problem is, precisely?

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a time of great disagreement, confusion, or suffering ## Footnote An economic/financial crisis

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very important and needing attention immediately ## Footnote This is precisely why addressing this polarization crisis is so urgent and demands action from all of us

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công lao ## Footnote The merit of the Black Lives Matter movement