Statistics for Debating Vocabulary

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Clue	Vocabulary	% Correct
To point out flaws in another team's arguments	Rebut	90%
The person responsible for choosing a winner	Adjudicator	60%
Arguing FOR the debate topic	Affirmative	60%
The team arguing against your own	Opposition	50%
Arguing AGAINST the debate topic	Negative	40%
The groups that are hypothetically affected by the above	Stakeholder	40%
The current state of the world	Status Quo	40%
Proposal to implement a system relevant to the topic	Model	30%
The main arguments within one's speech	Substantive	30%
The division of arguments between each speaker	Allocation	20%
To introduce your team's main arguments, typically used by the first speaker	Signpost	10%
To define a topic in a way that is advantageous to one's team	Squirrel	10%
Alternative name for a team's fourth speaker	Team advisor	10%