Civil Rights Vocabulary

Word

Definition

Sentence

- Number the word.

- Include part of speech.

- Use your own words.

- Dont copy and paste from Google.

Use the word in a sentence that you

created to practice using it in writing.

Example:
scholar (noun)

A person who is a specialist in

The scholar at ACRMA #5 was
studying, critical thinking, and all things thrilled to read their favorite novel,
academic.
The Diary of Anne Frank.

1. zenith

he highest point reached by a celestial

or other object.

That picture means zenith

Picture
Insert a picture or image that
will help you remember the
meaning of the word.

2. legislation

3. abolished

4. minstrel song

Legislation (or "statutory law") is law

which has been promulgated (or
"enacted") by a legislature or other
governing body or the process of
making it. (Another source of law is
judge-made law or case law.)

They have this because they get

that for a cases

to do away with; put an end to;

annul; make void:

Someone is making the people

work for them.

The word minstrel traces back to

the Old French word
menstrual,meaning entertainer,
servant. In medieval times, nobles
would often employ a minstrel to
recite poems and sing songs
accompanied by music, so the
minstrel was both entertainer and
servant.

They make a cool music

5. contradiction in terms

6. renaissance

7. forums

a statement or group of words

associating objects or ideas that are
incompatible.

that the pyramid for contradiction in

terms.

Renaissance definition. The cultural

rebirth that occurred in Europe from
roughly the fourteenth through the
middle of the seventeenth centuries,
based on the rediscovery of the
literature of Greece and Rome.

That is the picture what the

renaissance did.

a place, meeting, or medium where

ideas and views on a particular issue
can be exchanged.

that is the people around the forum

8. segregation

9. discrimination

10. boycott

the action or state of setting someone

or something apart from other people
or things or being set apart.

They want to go to school but they

dont have money.

the unjust or prejudicial treatment of

different categories of people or things,
especially on the grounds of race, age,
or sex.

Some people discriminate to

another person because his brown
or white.

withdraw from commercial or social

relations with (a country, organization,
or person) as a punishment or protest.

They people get mad because what

this say.

11. diverse

12. demonstration

13. lawmakers

14. contentious

showing a great deal of variety; very

different.

The people is getting the world with

their hands

the action or process of showing the

existence or truth of something by
giving proof or evidence.

The people are demonstrating they

need to work for have money and
they can buy clothes and food.

a legislator.

The people are in the court

because someone is in trouble.

causing or likely to cause an argument; They are playing arm wrestling.

controversial.

15. unjust

16. dispersed

not based on or behaving according to

what is morally right and fair.

The big guy is fighting with the little

kid.

distribute or spread over a wide area.

The guy find a paper where that

show the word dispersed.