Excerpt from "One Word of Truth Outweighs the World"

Imprisoned and exiled by the Soviet Union for his writings, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understands the power of words. When he won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, he delivered a speech that TRULY drove home this point.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
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  1. accurate
    characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth
    I think that world literature has the power in these frightening times to help mankind see itself accurately despite what is advocated by partisans and by parties.
  2. concise
    expressing much in few words
    It has the power to transmit the condensed experience of one region to another, so that different scales of values are combined, and so that one people accurately and concisely knows the true history of another with a power of recognition and acute awareness as if it had lived through that history itself--and could thus be spared repeating old mistakes.
  3. correlation
    a reciprocal connection between two or more things
    We will make correlations and maintain world-wide standards.
  4. condemn
    express strong disapproval of
    Who, if not writers, are to condemn their own unsuccessful governments
  5. onslaught
    a sudden and severe onset of trouble
    What can literature do against the pitiless onslaught of naked violence?
  6. flourish
    grow vigorously
    Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with LYING.
  7. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
    It does not always or necessarily go straight for the gullet; usually it demands of its victims only allegiance to the lie, only complicity in the lie.
  8. vanquish
    defeat in a competition, race, or conflict
    Writers and artists can do more: they can VANQUISH LIES!
  9. dispel
    force to go away
    Once lies have been dispelled, the repulsive nakedness of violence will be exposed--and hollow violence will collapse.
  10. armament
    weaponry used by military or naval force
    That, my friend, is why I think we can help the world in its red-hot hour: not by the nay-saying of having no armaments, not by abandoning oneself to the carefree life, but by going into battle!
Created on Mon Oct 13 14:06:11 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Oct 13 15:04:13 EDT 2014)

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