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Glossary of policy debate terms

This is a glossary of policy debate terms.

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Affirmative

Agent counterplan

Ballot Vote

Constructive speech

Drop

Fiat

Harms

Impact turns

Inherency

Interlocutor

Judge

Kritik

Negative block

Off-case arguments

Preparation time

Rebuttal speech

Resolution

Significance

Turn

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Glossary of policy debate terms

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Edges78
Triples2
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025316
Components1

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Important terminology

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a single microchip in a spy satellite has greater impact currently than its removalinstance ofHarm0.80text
in which the Solvency seems so insignificantinstance ofHarm0.80text

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