Collection 6: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

What rights do we have in our own public schools. This Supreme Court decision was a defining moment of the 20th Century.

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  1. nominal
    insignificantly small; a matter of form only
  2. injunction
    a judicial remedy to prohibit a party from doing something
  3. respondent
    someone who answers
  4. promulgate
    put a law into effect by formal declaration
  5. impinge
    infringe upon
  6. certiorari
    a legal document requesting a higher court to review a case
  7. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  8. nascent
    being born or beginning
  9. disputatious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  10. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  11. purport
    have the often misleading appearance of being or intending
  12. enclave
    an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct
  13. arrogate
    seize and take control without authority
  14. violative
    violating or tending to violate or offend against
  15. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  16. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  17. integral
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  18. caprice
    a sudden desire
  19. disclaim
    make a disavowal about
  20. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
Created on Fri Jul 18 21:47:11 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 30 16:25:07 EDT 2014)

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