| A | B |
|---|
| Abdicate | to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| Amnesty | an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| Apartheid | the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa |
| Aristocratic | of noble birth |
| Autocratic | ruling with absolute authority |
| Bourgeois | middle class, usually in the pejorative sense |
| Capitalism | free enterprise |
| Coup | a birlliant victory or accomplishment |
| Demagogue | a leader of the people, but more a rabble-rouser |
| Enfranchise | to grant the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| Hegemony | leadership, especially of one nation over another |
| Ideology | a system of social or political ideas |
| Inperial | like an emperor or an empire |
| Mandate | a command or authorization to do somthing |
| Nepotism | showing favoritism to friends or family in business or politics |
| Partisan | one who supports a praticular person, cause or idea |
| Proletariat | the industrial working class |
| Sedition | treason |
| Sycophant | one who sucks up to others |
| Usurp | to seize wrongfully |
