Word List Voting 375 words

Voting Vocabulary Word List (375)

• A

  absentee, acclaim, accountability, advertise, affiliation, amendment, announcement, appeal, appearance, applaud, approach, appropriation, arguments, articulate, aspire, at large, authorization

• B

  ballot, ballot box, bandwagon, behavior, bias, bicameral, bill, bipartisan, boondoggle, booth, brochure, budget, bureaucrat

• C

  campaign, candidate, canvass, capitalize, care, careful, catalyst, caucus, caution, centrist, challenge, challenger, charisma, choice, civic, closing time, coalition, coast-to-coast, collective, commit, committee, common, communication, concede, concession, confidence, Congress, congressional, conscience, consequence, conservative, constituent, Constitution, contribution, controversy, convene, convinced, counting, criteria, criticism

• D

  dark horse, debate, decision, decisive, declare, defeat, deficit, definite, delegate, deliberate, deliberation, democracy, Democrat, democratic, derision, destiny, diligent, disheartened, dishonest, dissatisfaction, district, diverse, division, dogma, dominate, donation, donor, dossier, dynamic

• E

  editorial, effective, efficient, elation, Election Day, electoral college, elevate, eligible, eloquence, emphasis, empowerment, enact, encourage, endorse, equal, ethics, euphoria, executive, exit poll, experience

• F

  faction, feud, filibuster, flag, flaw, focus, forum, fraud, freedom, front runner, funding, fundraiser

• G

  gain, gambit, gathering, gerrymander, glaring, GOP, government, grace, grass-roots, grateful

• H

  handshake, historic, honest, hooray, hypocrisy

• I

  ignite, immigrants, inalienable, incentive, incorporate, incumbency, incumbent, independent, indulge, infallible, influx, initiative, inquiry, inspire, integrity, interests, investigate, irresponsible, issues

• J

  jeer, jitters, joking, journalist, jubilant, judge, judicial

• K

  keen, knowledge

• L

  lame duck, lament, landslide, law, leadership, leaning, left, legal, legalize, legislature, liberal, lobbyist, location, lone, loser, loyalty

• M

  machine, magistrate, majority, measures, meetings, mentor, midterm election, minority, motive, mudslinging

• N

  national, nationwide, negative, newspapers, nominate, nominee, nonpartisan, numbers

• O

  obligation, official, opine, opinion, opportunity, opposition, orator, oratory, organize, outspoken, ovation

• P

  PAC (Political Action Committee), pamphlet, participation, partisanship, party, petition, phoning, platform, pledge, plurality, polarize, policy, politician, politics, poll, polling place, pollster, popular, popularity, pork barrel, position paper, pragmatist, praise, precinct, prepared, pressure, pride, primary, priority, proactive, progressive, projection, promise, propaganda, proponent, proposal, punish, purpose

• Q

  quantity, query, quest, quorum, quotes

• R

  race, ratify, re-election, reapportionment, recall, recognition, reconcile, recount, recrimination, redistrict, referendum, reform, registration, regulate, report, representation, Republican, rescind, research, resignation, resilience, restrictions, retort, revelations, revenues, rhetoric, right, roll call, runoff

• S

  sample ballot, scope, Senate, seniority, seniors, shift, shortcoming, shuffle, sideline, sinecure, slate, slogan, solicitation, solution, spar, spectacle, speculation, spending, spin, spotlight, stake, stance, state’s rights, statute, strategist, strategy, straw poll, study, stump, subcommittee, success, suffrage, support, swing vote, system

• T

  tactics, tally, taxpayer, term, term limit, ticket, turnout

• U

  ultimate, unanimous, uncommitted, unfair, uniformity, unity, universal, unknown, unopposed, unprecedented, unsure, upset

• V

  vacancy, vest, veteran, veto, viable, victor, victory, vie, viewpoint, violation, VIP, vital, voiced, volunteers, voter, vulnerability

• W

  ward, whistle-stop, wild-card, winner, withdraw, withhold, woo, worker, write-in

• X

• Y

  yell, yield, youth

• Z

  zeal, zone