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Acronyms
Public Speaking
Debate vocab
2016 Topics
Potpourri
100
The Nightingale team is part of the NYDL, which is an acronym for this.
What is the New York Debate League?
100
The term for when you look directly at the audience and the judge.
What is eye contact?
100
This is the team that argues FOR the topic.
What is the proposition team?
100
This, which ensures Donald Trump's election win even though he lost the popular vote, should be abolished, according to one debate topic.
What is the Electoral College?
100
This is the pizza place we order from when Nightingale hosts a tournament.
What is Marco Polo?
200
The acronym for this is A-R-E.
What is Assertion-Reasoning-Evidence?
200
No one can hear you if you don't have enough of this.
What is volume?
200
This is a one-to-three-word exclamation that can be made any time your opponent is speaking.
What is a heckle?
200
Hosting this global competition is worth the cost, according to a November resolution.
What are the Olympic Games?
200
She is the longest-serving woman on the Supreme Court.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
300
The acronym for this is POI.
What is Point of Information?
300
This is the number 2 fear among Americans AFTER public speaking.
What is heights?
300
This is the name of a point that directly refutes a point made by the other team.
What is a rebuttal?
300
Ban the privatization of this essential resource, according to one topic resolution.
What is water?
300
Debaters in the NYDL hail from these boroughs of New York City.
What are Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island?
400
Sometimes A-R-E is extended to include S-I. S-I stands for this.
What is significance and impact?
400
The expression for the kind of speaking that makes statements sound like questions.
What is uptalk?
400
This is the name for when you tell the judge and outline of your speech before you give it.
What is a roadmap?
400
These kinds of schools should be permitted to hold religiously affiliated ceremonies, according to a December resolution.
What are public schools?
400
This is the name of Ms. Deschamps' dog.
What is Lulu?
500
The acronym for this is ESU.
What is the English-Speaking Union?
500
This is a new expression for when a man explains a topic to a woman in a condescending manner--often a topic having to do with women themselves!
What is mansplaining?
500
This happens in the rebuttal speech when the speaker compares each side's main voting point (and explains why hers wins)!
What is weighing?
500
Undocumented immigrants should be given a pathway to this, according to a November resolution.
What is citizenship?
500
This pop star, who died in early 2016, starred in the movie The Labyrinth.
Who is David Bowie?