| 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; snobbish. |
| Autocratic | Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy. |
| Bourgeois | Middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional. |
| Capitalism | Free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens and in which the resulting products and services are sold with little government control. |
| Coup | A brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group. |
| 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. |
| Imperial | Like an emperor or an empire. |
| Mandate | A command or authorization to do something; the will of the voters as expressed by the results of an election. |
| Nepotism | Showing favorism to friends or family in business or politics. |
| Partisan | One who supports a particular person, cause, or idea. |
| Proletariat | To spread or grow rapidly. |
| Sedition | Treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion. |
| Sycophant | One who sucks up to others. |
| Usurp | To seize wrongfully. |
