Wildcard Vocabulary
Research
Exposition
Debate
Reasoning
100

These are the five common topics.

What are definition, comparison, circumstance, relationship and testimony?

100

Module 4 of our science textbook covered this topic.

What is Chemistry: Chemical Bonds?

100

Objects, characters, figures or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.

What is symbolism?

100

A poem written by Clinton Scollard in 1903 describing a controversial event.

What is "The Men of the Maine"?

100

The status of a term in regard to its extension.

What is "distribution"?

200

This is the definition of contradictory statements.

Contradictory statements are statements that differ in both quality and quantity.

200

This type of bond forms between atoms of nonmetals when they share valence electrons.

What is a covalent bond?

200

The response to an opposing argument or anticipated arguments.

What is refutation?

200

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

What is the 3rd Amendment?

200

In the statement "All men are mortal." the term "mortal" is this part of the statement.

What is the predicate-term?

300

These are the Latin verb moods and voices.

What are indicative, imperative or subjunctive and active or passive.

300

A chemical reaction that releases energy to its surroundings.

What is an exothermic reaction?

300

He wrote Billy Budd, Sailor.

Who was Herman Melville?

300

These men have the distinction of a father and son having both been elected president of the United States.

Who are John Adams & John Quincy Adams, and George HW Bush & George W Bush? 

300

The obversion of "No logic problems are difficult"

What is "All logic problems are not difficult"?

400

A molecule that has slight positive and negative charges due to an imbalance in the way electrons are shared. 

What is a polar molecule?

400

The names of the molecular compounds formed from potassium and iodine; P204; and CaCl3.

What are Potassium Iodide, Diphosphorus Tetroxide and Calcium Trichloride?

400

These are the names of the two ships on which that Billy Budd serves.

What are The Rights of Man and the Bellipotent?

400

US westward expansion included these two major territory acquisitions. 

What are the Northwest Territory/Ordinance (1787) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803)?

400

The conversion of "Some logic problems are difficult"

What is "Some difficult things are logic problems"?

500

This of two or more terms is the product of all prime algebraic factors common to every term, each to the highest power that it occurs in all the terms.

What is Greatest Common Factor?

500

All combustion reactions will have THIS as one of the reactants. 

What is oxygen gas?

500

Through Gates of Splendor is a biography of missionaries to this tribe in Eastern Ecuador.

Who are the Acua (Waodoni) tribe?

500

President Andrew Johnson appointed this man as the 5th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. He wrote the ruling decision for the defendant in the case Dred Scott v Sanford.

Who was Roger B Taney (1777-1864)?

500

If the antecedent is true, the consequent must also be true.

What is the Essential Law of Argumentation?