Excerpt from "The Four Freedoms"

On the brink of entering World War II, FDR delivered a State of the Union speech that both addressed domestic issues and outlined reasons why America should support the fight against Germany.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Cause Greater Than Self, The New Colossus, The Statue of Liberty Address, poems about America, America, America and I, What Is an American, Growing Up Asian in America, Let America Be America Again, The Four Freedoms, The Bill of Rights, What Is Freedom, Is the American Dream Still Possible, The Declaration of Independence, poems about immigrants, Money, A Raisin in the Sun, Who Burns, Roberto Acuna, Barack Obama, The Right to Fail
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  1. turmoil
    violent agitation
    These are the simple, the basic things that must never be lost sight of in the turmoil and unbelievable complexity of our modern world.
  2. abiding
    unceasing
    The inner and abiding strength of our economic and political systems is dependent upon the degree to which they fulfill these expectations.
  3. adequate
    having the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
    We should widen the opportunities for adequate medical care.
  4. essential
    basic and fundamental
    In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
  5. secure
    get by special effort
    The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world.
  6. armament
    weaponry used by military or naval force
    The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
  7. antithesis
    exact opposite
    That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
  8. domination
    power to defeat
    A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.
  9. perpetual
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch.
  10. supremacy
    power to dominate or defeat
    Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.
Created on 十一月 8, 2014 (updated 十一月 9, 2014)

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