Controversial Issues Vocabulary

noun a strong feeling of anger, shock, or indignation

verb to cause someone to feel outraged

adjective causing outrage or anger

• The community expressed their outrage over the decision made by the city council.
• I can't believe the outrage on social media about that new movie.
• The outrage on Twitter was off the charts after that controversial tweet.
• Her eyes blazed with outrage as she listened to the unfair accusations.

noun a commotion or fuss

verb to cause a commotion or fuss

• The political scandal caused quite a stooshie in the government.
• There was a big stooshie at the party last night when the cake got ruined.
• I can't believe you caused such a stooshie over a small misunderstanding.
• Her unexpected resignation created a stooshie among the staff members.

noun a word that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance, or quality

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

adjective a word naming an attribute of a noun, such as sweet, red, or technical

adverb a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse

preposition a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

conjunction a word used to connect clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause

article a word that specifies a noun as definite or indefinite

• It is important to carefully choose the battles you fight and not make the hill you want to die on a trivial matter.
• Don't waste your energy on arguing about the hill you want to die on, it's not worth it.
• Why are you so stubborn about that issue? It's not the hill you want to die on.
• Sometimes it's better to let go of the hill you want to die on in order to focus on more important things.