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Vocabulary from the Second Presidential Debate: October 9, 2016

Sun Oct 09 23:47:36 EDT 2016
The Second Presidential Debate took place on October 9, 2016 between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and businessman Donald Trump. It was a raucous affair, with a good amount of name-calling and accusations, but there was also some discussion of issues like the crisis in Syria and tax reform. Here are 20 words from the Second Presidential Debate.
siege
But people [who I will nominate to the Supreme Court] will respect the constitution of the United States. And I think that this is so important. Also, the second amendment which is totally under siege by people like Hillary Clinton. They'll respect the second amendment. And what it stands for, what it represents. So important to me.
- Donald Trump
denigrate
We saw him after the first debate spend nearly a week denigrating a former miss universe in the harshest, most personal terms, so, yes, this is who Donald Trump is.
- Sec. Clinton
catastrophic
If you've noticed the Canadians, when they need a big operation, they come into the United States in many cases, because their system is so slow. It's catastrophic in certain ways.
- Donald Trump
divisive
Because unfortunately, there's been a lot of very divisive, dark things said about Muslims.
- Sec. Clinton
osmosis
Osmosis here refers to Mr. Trump just absorbing the benefit intended for someone else.
All of her friends [benefit from] the tax [provisions] we were talking about, and I would just get it by osmosis.
- Donald Trump
depreciation
A lot of my [tax] write-off was depreciation and that Hillary as a senator allowed.
- Donald Trump
dereliction
I regret deeply that the senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on the person that president Obama... they've not given him a vote to be able to be have the full complement of nine supreme court justices. I think that was a dereliction of duty.
- Sec. Clinton
leverage
We need to some leverage with the Russians because they are not going to come to the negotiating table for a diplomatic resolution unless there is some leverage over them.
- Sec. Clinton
oriented
So, I believe that this election has become in part so conflict oriented, so intense because there's a lot at stake.
- Sec. Clinton
revitalize
That is why I am the only candidate, from the very beginning of this campaign, who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country.
- Sec. Clinton
regime
Days ago, the state department called for a war crimes investigation of the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad and Russia for their bombardment of Aleppo.
- Sec. Clinton
repeal
Well, I think he [Donald Trump] was about to say he's going to solve it by repealing it and getting rid of the Affordable Care Act and I'm going to fix it.
- Sec. Clinton
carnage
When we have a world where you have ISIS chopping off heads, where you have frankly drowning people in steel cages, wars and horrible, horrible sights all over, so many bad things happening. We haven't seen anything like this. The carnage all over the world.
- Donald Trump
tenor
And what he has said about African-Americans and Latinos, about Muslims, about P.O.W.S, about immigrants, about people with disabilities, he's never apologized for. And so, I do think that a lot of the tone and tenor that he has said...
- Sec. Clinton
incite
My argument is not with his supporters. It's with him and with the hateful and divisive campaign he has run and the inciting of violence at his rallies and the very brutal kinds of comments about not just women, but all kinds of Americans.
- Sec. Clinton
enable
I do think the use of special forces which we're using, the use of enablers and trainers in Iraq which has had some positive effects are very much in our interests and so I do support what is happening...
- Sec. Clinton
inconceivable
Whether it's in business and trade, where we're doing so badly. Last year, we had almost $800 billion trade deficit. Other words, trading with other countries. We had an $800 billion deficit. It's hard to believe.
Inconceivable.
-Donald Trump
implement
How do we do what he has advocated without causing great distress within our own country … are we going to have religious tests?
When people fly into our country? And how do we expect to be able to implement those? So, I thought that what he said was extremely unwise. And even dangerous.
- Sec. Clinton
subpoena
There has never been anything like this, where e-mails and you get a subpoena and after getting the subpoena, you delete 33,000 e-mails and then acid wash them or bleach them.
- Donald Trump
bombard
And every day that goes by, we see the results of the regime by Assad in partnership with the Iranians on the grounds, the Russians in the air bombarding places in particular Aleppo where there are hundreds of thousands of people probably about 250,000 still left. And there is a determined effort by the Russian air force to destroy Aleppo in order to eliminate the last of the Syrian rebels who are really holding out against the Assad regime.
- Sec. Clinton

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