4781099698 | Abolish | cancel; put an end to | 0 | |
4781100473 | Absolutism | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 1 | |
4781100474 | Abundance | a great or plentiful amount. | 2 | |
4781100475 | Accelerated | made faster | 3 | |
4781101273 | Accumulated | gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of. | 4 | |
4781102010 | Ad hoc | for a specific purpose and no other; improvised In current American English it is used to describe something that has been formed or used for a special and immediate purpose, without previous planning. | 5 | |
4781102011 | Adept | (adj.) thoroughly skilled; (n.) an expert | 6 | |
4781102012 | Anarchy | (n) a lack of government and law; confusion | 7 | |
4781102013 | Arbitrary | (adj.) unreasonable; based on one's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness | 8 | |
4781102821 | Aristocrats | rich landowners | 9 | |
4781102822 | Ascendancy | controlling influence | 10 | |
4781105716 | Assertive | Acting with confidence and force; sure of one's self | 11 | |
4781105717 | Atrocities | Cruel and inhumane acts that people commit against each other | 12 | |
4781105718 | Autocratic | (adj.) absolute in power or authority taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions; domineering. | 13 | |
4781106270 | Barbaric | uncivilized | 14 | |
4781106271 | Beneficiaries | a person who derives advantage from something, especially a trust, will, or life insurance policy. | 15 | |
4781106272 | Bureaucrats | government officials | 16 | |
4781106273 | Byproduct | something left over; the remains or remnants of a manufacturing process | 17 | |
4781106279 | Castigating | Scold harshly | 18 | |
4781106935 | Catastrophe | a large-scale disaster, misfortune, or failure | 19 | |
4781106936 | Circumvent | avoid | 20 | |
4781106937 | Commodity | something useful that can be used for financial advantage; a product or service that is indistinguishable from the same thing from competing sellers | 21 | |
4781106938 | Consolidation | solidification; strengthening: | 22 | |
4781107662 | Covertible | able to be changed in form, function, or character. | 23 | |
4781108517 | conviction | A fixed or strong belief | 24 | |
4781108518 | culminated | To reach the highest point to come to a significant point such as the end of an event | 25 | |
4781108519 | Cultivation | The preparation of land to grow and yield crops. | 26 | |
4781108520 | Decimated | to destroy or kill a large part of | 27 | |
4781109118 | Decree | (n.) an order having the force of law; (v.) to issue such an order; to command firmly or forcefully | 28 | |
4781109119 | Deference | Respect | 29 | |
4781109120 | Disenfranchised | People deprived of legal rights, especially the right to vote | 30 | |
4781110783 | dislocations | disturbance from a proper, original, or usual place or state. | 31 | |
4781110784 | Dispossession | The expulsion of someone from the possession of land by process of law. | 32 | |
4781110785 | Dissenters | Protestants who differed with the Church of England | 33 | |
4781112619 | Disunity | Disagreement and conflict within a group | 34 | |
4781113724 | Emigrant | A person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere. | 35 | |
4781114782 | Endemic | Native | 36 | |
4781114783 | Entitlement | (n) having the right to certain privileges; believing, sometimes without cause, that one deserves or has a right to certain privileges | 37 | |
4781115939 | Entrenched | firmly established | 38 | |
4781119007 | Epidemics | Occurrences of diseases in which many people in the same place at the same time are affected | 39 | |
4781119008 | Epochal | very significant or influential; defining an epoch or time-period | 40 | |
4781119009 | Erroneous | (adj.) incorrect, containing mistakes | 41 | |
4781119010 | Exerting | apply or bring to bear (a force, influence, or quality) | 42 | |
4781119030 | Explicitly | very clear; nothing hidden | 43 | |
4781119701 | Expulsion | the process of driving or forcing out | 44 | |
4781119702 | Feasibility | (n) the quality of being doable | 45 | |
4781119703 | Feudailism | a medival political and economic system based on the relation from lords to vassals | 46 | |
4781119704 | Flourished | to grow well, successful | 47 | |
4781119705 | Heathenism | "religion" of those who don't believe in God and/or are uncivilized | 48 | |
4781119706 | Heretics | those who hold to a belief opposed to the established teachings of a church | 49 | |
4781128789 | Hierarchy | (n) a ranked series; a classification of people according to rank, ability, etc.; a ruling body | 50 | |
4781128790 | Immunity | (n.) resistance to disease; freedom from some charge or obligation | 51 | |
4781128791 | Imposing | impressive by virtue of size, power, or manner | 52 | |
4781128792 | Incorporation | Making something part of a whole | 53 | |
4781129188 | Indentured | A person who signs an agreement to work for a master for a period of years; not free until they completed their term of service. | 54 | |
4781131512 | Inevitably | unavoidably | 55 | |
4781138903 | Inhabitants | a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place | 56 | |
4781138904 | Initiated | cause (a process or action) to begin. | 57 | |
4781138905 | Invocations | the action of invoking something or someone for assistance or as an authority | 58 | |
4781138906 | Isthmus | A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas | 59 | |
4781139433 | Magistrates | a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones. | 60 | |
4781139434 | Marshaled | arrange or assemble (a group of people, especially soldiers) in order. | 61 | |
4781139435 | Matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 62 | |
4781139436 | Miniscule | very small | 63 | |
4781139437 | Monarchy | A government ruled by a king or queen | 64 | |
4781139947 | Monopolized | (of an organization or group) obtain exclusive possession or control of (a trade, commodity, or service). | 65 | |
4781139948 | Municipal | adj. relating to local government | 66 | |
4781139949 | Nomads | people who wander from place to place | 67 | |
4781140430 | Opted out | verb phrase: to decide to leave or withdraw | 68 | |
4781140431 | Overshadowed | to make someone or something seem less important compared to someone or something else | 69 | |
4781140432 | Papal | of or relating to a pope or to the papacy | 70 | |
4781140433 | Patriarchal | male led society and household | 71 | |
4781140434 | Persecution | mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs | 72 | |
4781140436 | Piety | religious devotion | 73 | |
4781140771 | Predominate | to be greatest in number or importance | 74 | |
4781146995 | Preoccupation | a state in which you give all your attention to something | 75 | |
4781146996 | Proliferated | to grow or increase rapidly | 76 | |
4781146997 | Propagandists | a person who promotes or publicizes a particular organization or cause | 77 | |
4781148798 | Reciprocal | shared, felt, or shown by both sides | 78 | |
4781148806 | Reconciliation | Bringing together people who were opposed to each other | 79 | |
4781149260 | Regime | a government, especially an authoritarian one. | 80 | |
4781149261 | Revelation | a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way. | 81 | |
4781149262 | Situated | fix or build (something) in a certain place or position. | 82 | |
4781149263 | Stagnate | (v.) to become or remain inactive, not develop, not flow (With no room for advancement, the waiter's career stagnated.) | 83 | |
4781149264 | Stimulated | encouraged to act; invigorated | 84 | |
4781149265 | Subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection; to overpower by superior force; overcome; to bring under mental or emotional control, as by persuasion or intimidation; render submissive; to repress. | 85 | |
4781150002 | Subordination | the act of placing in a lower rank or position: | 86 | |
4781150733 | Surplus | A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded | 87 | |
4781152315 | Textiles | cloth items | 88 | |
4781152316 | Turmoil | disorder | 89 | |
4781152317 | Tyranny | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 90 | |
4781152318 | Undermined | damaged; attacked | 91 | |
4781152319 | Underpinning | n. a system of supports beneath; a foundation or basis | 92 | |
4781152914 | Unifcation | the process of being united or made into a whole. | 93 | |
4781152915 | Uniformity | sameness; monotony | 94 | |
4781152916 | Unparalleled | unequaled or unmatched | 95 | |
4781152917 | Upheavals | Strong or violent change or disturbance. | 96 | |
4781155149 | Viable | PRACTICABLE; CAPABLE OF DEVELOPING | 97 | |
4781155150 | Zeal | (adj.) eager, earnest, devoted | 98 |
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