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26 Cards in this Set
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Autonomous |
adj; politically independent and self governing |
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Bastion |
n; a place or system in which something, such as an old fashioned idea, continues to survive |
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Benevolent |
adj; kind and generous; organized to do good things for other people |
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Bureaucracy |
n; an administrative system, especially in a goverment, that divides work into specific categories carried out by special departments of nonelected officials |
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Capitalism |
n; 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 |
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Capitulate |
v; to surrender, especially under agreed conditions; to give in to an argument, request, pressure, or something unavoidable |
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Cartel |
n; an alliance of business companies formed to control production, competition, and prices; a political alliance among parties or groups having common goals |
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Cataclysm |
n; a sudden and violent upheaval or disaster that causes great changes in society |
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Causation |
n; the fact that something causes an effect, or the action of causing an effect |
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Censorship |
n; the suppression of all or part of a play, movie, letter, or publication considered offensive or a threat to security |
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Chronicle |
v; to record an event or series of events in chronological order |
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Circumnavigate |
v; to sail or fly around something such as the world or an island |
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Cloister |
n; the life of religious seclusion lived by a monk or nun; v; to find a private place where you can remain undisturbed |
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Clout |
n; the power to direct, shape, or otherwise influence things |
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Coalition |
n; an alliance of statesmen for a political purpose |
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Coerce |
v; to make somebody do something against his or her will by using force or threats |
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Collectivization |
v; to run or organize something such as a farm according to the principles of collective control |
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Commerce |
n; the large-scale buying and selling of goods and services |
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Commodity |
n; an item that is bought and sold, especially an unprocessed material; something that people value or find useful |
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Commonwealth |
n; a group of people linked by something that they all have in common |
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Communism |
n; the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all the members of that society |
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Compare |
v; to examine two or more people or things in order to discover similarities and differences between them |
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Condem |
v; to state that somebody or something is in some way wrong or unacceptable |
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Conduit |
n; someone or something that is used as a way of sending something, such as information or money, from one place or person to another |
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Conglomerate |
n; a mass formed by gathering a number of dissimilar materials or parts |
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Conglomerate |
n; a mass formed by gathering a number of dissimilar materials or parts |
