Banning Behavior: unit vocabulary

• Definition:

1. To support, ally, or associate with someone
2. To put things in a straight line

• Sample Sentence: Supriya's group aligned with the other rebels. If they didn't unite, they'd be powerless!

• Definition: to change
• Sample Sentence: Larius refused to alter his behavior to please the people in charge.

• Definition: to move or get close to something
• Sample Sentence: Latoya approached the meeting spot, trying her best to not look like a spy.
• Sample Sentence: Delicately, they tried to approach the problem of poverty in the countryside without talking about the Prince's enormous fleet of luxury cars.

• Definition: involving arguing, quarrelsome
• Sample Sentence: The Supreme Leader's inner council had loud and contentious meetings about how many (or how few) protests to allow.

• Definition: openly disobeying rules, pushing back
• Sample Sentence: Councilman Teju was defiant: he would never agree to any of the mayor's proposals

• Definition: to remove or abolish
• Sample Sentence:"Our new Directive of Public Order will eliminate those troublemakers for good," sneered the Minister of Peace.

• Definition: to make sure that a rule or law is followed
• Sample Sentence: The Admiral enforced the law on his enemies, but he ignored the law for his friends.

• Definition: to force something onto others
• Sample Sentence: Do you think the new principal will impose a ban on junk food?

• Definition: an unforeseen, and usually bad, thing that happens
• Sample Sentence: Sadly, the incident in the library destroyed all of the books.

• Definition: Incorrect, false, nonsensical
• Sample Sentence: Devorah grabbed the microphone. "This regime is illegitimate! Their rules are invalid! You are owed freedom!"

• Definition: to do things or talk with other people
• Sample Sentence: Marissa had enjoyed her interactions with Carlos—he was one of her favorite customers! And now she wondered: will I ever see him again?

• Definition: a person who makes laws; an elected politician
• Sample Sentence: State legislators voted to return more rights to the people.

• Definition: an official rule, or set of rules
• Sample Sentence: The Lord Commander's new policy meant we had to be inside by sundown, or the Night Men would take us away.

• Definition: war or pushback against a government or authority
• Sample Sentence: To the mind of a dictator, something as innocent as a sidewalk chalk drawing could be seen as an act of rebellion.

• Definition: to make rules that control something
• Sample Sentence: The Morality Council regulates what we can see on TV.

• Definition: opposition; an effort made to stop someone or something
• Sample Sentence: The Imperial Guard encountered stiff resistance from the villagers when they set up a curfew.