2825007914 | abdicate | to give up high office formally or officially, especially the throne | 0 | |
2825009265 | abhorrent | arousing strong feelings of repugnance or disapproval | 1 | |
2825011461 | accumulate | to collect or obtain a large amount of something over a period of time | 2 | |
2825013049 | adept | Highly proficient or expert at something | 3 | |
2825024754 | agrarian | dominated by or relating to farming or rural life | 4 | |
2825027784 | alleviate | to make something such as pain or hardship more bearable or less severe | 5 | |
2825030737 | ameliorate | to make something better or become better | 6 | |
2825033135 | Amerindian | same as native american | 7 | |
2825034403 | analogous | describes body parts and organs that have equivalent functions but that have evolved independently of one another in different plants or animals. (Ex. the wings of birds, bats, and insects are analogous.) | 8 | |
2825063503 | analysis | the separation of something into its constituents in order to find out what it contains to examine individual parts or to study the structure of the whole; the examination of something in detail in order to understand it better or draw conclusions from it | 9 | |
2825085610 | annex | to take over territory and incorporate it it into another political entity. | 10 | |
2825087572 | aptitude | a natural tendency to do something well, especially one that can be further developed. | 11 | |
2825089328 | arbitrary | based solely on personal wishes, feelings, or perceptions, rather than on objective facts, reasons or principles | 12 | |
2825097701 | arbitrate | intercede: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. | 13 | |
2825101769 | argumentation | reasoning that proceeds methodically from a statement to a conclusion; the process of debating or discussing something | 14 | |
2825110881 | aristocracy | people of noble families or the highest social class; government of a country by a small group of people, especially a hereditary nobility. | 15 | |
2825140146 | assess | to examine something in order to judge or evaluate it | 16 | |
2825142228 | assimilation | the process of becoming part of or more like something greater | 17 | |
2825143292 | authoritarian | belonging to or believing in a political system in which obedience to the ruling person or group is strongly enforced | 18 | |
2825150287 | autonomous | politically independent and self governing | 19 | |
2825152964 | bureaucracy | an administrative system, especially in a government , that divides work into specific categories carried out by special departments of non elected officials. | 20 | |
2825162341 | capitalism | an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit | 21 | |
2825166465 | capitulate | to surrender, especially under agreed conditions; to give in to an argument, request, pressure, or something unavoidable. | 22 | |
2825169603 | cartel | an alliance of business companies formed to control production, competition, and prices; a political alliance among parties or groups having common goals | 23 | |
2825172300 | cataclysm | a sudden and violent upheaval or disaster that causes great changes in society | 24 |
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