Precedent: (noun) A legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
"The judge ruled that only the Supreme Court had the authority to overturn the separate-but-equal precedent established by Plessy."
The government had made a precedent disallowing students under the age of 21 to enter a club or bar.
Plaintiff: (noun) A person who brings suit in a court.
"However, as local NAACP secretary, Parks did accompany Nixon and Robinson to jail to ask Colvin whether she would be willing to be the plaintiff in a class action desegregation suit."
My lawyer had agreed to bring a plaintiff for me to wear on the day of court.
Adversaries: (noun) A person, group, or force that opposes or attacks; opponent; enemy; foe.
"By the 1950s, the Durrs' activities in Washington, D.C., led their adversaries to label them as radicals."
The South and North had been adversaries for quite a long time during war.
Indignities: (noun) An injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.
"Remembering the indignities and fear her family had suffered over the years, she suddenly felt as if she had the 'strength of her ancestors with her.'"
During the war, there had been many indignities and injuries for the North but the men still managed to never give up and win the South over.
Arrogantly: (adjective) Making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud.
"He announced arrogantly that he was going to take me apart and see what made me tick, she recalled in her autobiography."
That man spoke in an arrogant voice, it made many people leave the meeting immediately because they couldn't resist his voice. |
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