Statements that can be proved.
What are facts?
This is the team debating against a resolution.
What is the negative team?
The moment in a debate speech when the debating team is introduced.
What is a Team Split?
This is the team arguing to support a resolution or topic.
What is the affirmative team?
How believable a source or argument or person is.
What is credibility?
A debating team must present this way of understanding a topic.
What is the definition?
People in an audience traditionally call this out in a debate when they strongly agree with a well made argument.
What is Hear! Hear!?
When you debate, you hope to have an ______ on the audience.
What is impact?
People in an audience traditionally call this out when they strongly disagree with a particular argument.
What is Shame!?
To end a law, contract, or agreement officially.
What is rescinding?
An idiom for an argument that is used over and over again.
What is to beat a dead horse?
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?