Monster - by Walter Dean Myers Closing Arguments

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Monster - by Walter Dean Myers Closing Arguments

• Vocabulary

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Monster - Closing Arguments Vocabulary

• indulgence (noun) something granted as a favor
  or privilege
• I would beg your indulgence while I review the
  testimony.
• elicit (verb) to draw out or bring forth to
  bring to light
• The State did elicit from Steve that he spoke to
  Mr. King about basketball.
• implicated (verb) to show to be also involved,
  usually in an incriminating manner
• They both understand that the deal they get
  depends on their convincing you that other people
  are implicated.
• brutally (adv.) cruel vicious savage
• A robbery was committed a man was brutally
  killed.
• gullible (adj.) easily deceived or cheated.
• Or is this a shallow, gullible man who doesnt
  think very much of anything?
• verified (adj.) confirmed as to accuracy or
  truth by acceptable evidence or action
• The sale of cigarettes to Mr. Bolden, along with
  the verified theft of cigarettes from the
  drugstore, also suggests that Mr. King was
  present in the store during the robbery and
  murder.
• botched - (verb) to spoil by poor work messed
  up
• This was a botched robbery in which the
  perpetrators actually took very little money and
  a few cartons of cigarettes.
• moral (adj.) concerned with the rules of
  conduct between right and wrong, and good and
  evil.
• He is as guilty as everybody else, no matter how
  many moral hairs he can split.

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Monster - Closing Arguments Vocabulary

• indulgence
• (noun) something granted as a favor or privilege
• elicit
• (verb) to draw out or bring forth to bring to
  light
• implicated
• (verb) to show to be also involved, usually in an
  incriminating manner
• brutally
• (adv.) cruel vicious savage
• gullible
• (adj.) easily deceived or cheated.
• verified
• (adj.) confirmed as to accuracy or truth by
  acceptable evidence or action
• botched -
• (verb) to spoil by poor work messed up
• moral
• (adj.) concerned with the rules of conduct
  between right and wrong, and good and evil.

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Monster - Closing Arguments Vocabulary

• indulgence
• (noun) something granted as a favor or privilege
• elicit
• (verb) to draw out or bring forth to bring to
  light
• implicated
• (verb) to show to be also involved, usually in an
  incriminating manner
• brutally
• (adv.) cruel vicious savage
• gullible
• (adj.) easily deceived or cheated.
• verified
• (adj.) confirmed as to accuracy or truth by
  acceptable evidence or action
• botched -
• (verb) to spoil by poor work messed up
• moral
• (adj.) concerned with the rules of conduct
  between right and wrong, and good and evil