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A pause in fighting
cease-fire
100 years
A legal case or dispute which goes to court to be resolved.
court case
Another word for 'arithmetic mean'.
average
War between people who live in the same country.
dialogue
A conversation between characters.
A drawing of an object, concept, or process.
diagram
A piece of writing designed to communicate official or legal information.
document
Spell: A word that describes something rough to the touch.
coarse
To check the content, style, and grammar of a piece of writing.
edit
A punctuation mark that indicates a separation or pause.
comma
civil rights
Freedoms guaranteed to citizens, including the right to be treated equally.
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution; lists the rights of individuals.
Bill of Rights
chronometer
A very accurate clock.
A person who runs for public office.
candidate
A word that sounds like another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning.
homonym (USA) or homophone (UK)
HOMONYMS have the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings.
HOMOPHONES are pronounced the same and have the same spelling but differ in meaning.
Graph used to show parts of a whole.
Circle / pie graph
A sentence with an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
complex sentence
The noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb in a sentence.
direct object
PAC is an acronym for ...?
Political Action Committee
An economic system where the means of production are owned privately.
capitalism
Words that connect two complete thoughts, or independent clauses, with a comma, in a compound sentence.
coordinating conjunction
A plan that sets up an organization and defines its purpose.
charter
checks and balances
The idea that each branch of a government has powers that limit the other branches' powers.
Deals with the rights and duties of citizens and is a branch of political science.
civics