Practice tool

Vocabulary flashcards

Click the card to flip it. Forty terms across every format. New debaters should know all of them by their first tournament; volunteer judges should know the first twenty.

The tool

For judges

Volunteer judges hear these words in every round. The judging guide explains how to evaluate a round once you know the vocabulary. Sign up to judge.

For coaches

Run the deck as a warm-up: one card per student, define it in one sentence, next student. Ten minutes covers the deck once.