Evidence
Speeches
Debating
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

Statements that can be proved.

What are facts?

100
Refuting by offering an opposing argument.
What is rebuttal.
100

This is the team debating against a resolution.

What is the negative team?

100
A statement or an argument based on a false or invalid inference.
What is fallacy?
100
The source or text that contains the argument being used.
What is citation?
200
A statement made by an expert on a given topic.
What is an expert opinion?
200

The moment in a debate speech when the debating team is introduced.

What is a Team Split?

200

This is the team arguing to support a resolution or topic.

What is the affirmative team?

200

How believable a source or argument or person is.

What is credibility?

200
The act of struggling with an problem.
What is to grapple?
300
Information expressed as numbers which are presented in text, examples, or in charts or graphs.
What is statistics?
300

A debating team must present this way of understanding a topic.

What is the definition?

300

People in an audience traditionally call this out in a debate when they strongly agree with a well made argument.

What is Hear! Hear!?

300
The act of passing severe judgement; faultfinding.
What is criticism/criticize?
300

When you debate, you hope to have an ______ on the audience.

What is impact?

400
Brief personal stories that illustrate a point.
What are anecdotes?
400
The topic being debated.
What is the motion/resolution/assertion?
400

People in an audience traditionally call this out when they strongly disagree with a particular argument.

What is Shame!?

400
This says that one event or action causes a subsequent event.
What is causation?
400

To end a law, contract, or agreement officially.

What is rescinding?

500
Specific instances or illustrations of a general idea.
What are examples?
500
A statement at the end of a debate that restates the main points and states the action being requested to be taken.
What is the summary?
500

An idiom for an argument that is used over and over again.

What is to beat a dead horse?

500
This says that while two things happen around the same time, one does not cause the other.
What is correlation?
500

In a debate, the affirmative team is sometimes called the proposition team and the negative team is called opposition team. These are the opposing sides in a courtroom.

What are the prosecution and defense?

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