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| abdicate | v- to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| amnesty | n – an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| apartheid | n – the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa |
| aristocratic | adj – of noble birth; snobbish |
| autocratic | adj – ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| bourgeois | adj – middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| capitalism | n – free enterprise; an economic system that is owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting product and services are sold with relatively little government control |
| coup | n – a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of government by a small, internal group |
| denagogue | n – a leader of the people, but more a rabble-rouser |
| enfranchise | v – to grant the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| hegemony | n – leadership, especially of one nation over another |
| ideology | n – a system of social or political ideas |
| imperial | adj – like an emperor or empire |
| mandate | n – a command or authorization to do something; the will of the voters as expressed as the result of an election |
| nepotism | n- showing favoritisms towards friends or damily, business or politics |
| partisan | n- one hwo supports a particular person, cause, or idea |
| proletariat | n- the industrial working class |
| sedition | n- treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| sycophant | n- one who sucks up to others |
| usurp | v- to seize wrongfully |
