United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good Glossary

United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good Glossary

Ethic

Moral principles.

Embodied

To capture an idea, feeling, or quality.

Decency

A sense of respect, responsibility, and/or morality.

Cultivate

To develop or prepare for something.

Intersected

Two paths that cross one another at a given point.

Heritage

One’s inheritance.

Grievances

A wrong—real or perceived—that has been perpetrated by one person against another.

Petty

Not of importance; something trivial.

Condemn

To sentence to a punishment or consequence.

Criticize

To point out someone else’s faults.

Incontrovertibly

Absolute and irreversible; not subject for dispute.

Refrain

Something that is to be repeated.

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