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| abdicate | (verb) to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| amnesty | (noun)an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a rule or policy |
| apartheid | (nounthe abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Reublic of South Africa |
| aristocratic | (adjective)of noble birth; snobbish |
| autocratic | (adjective)ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| bourgeois | (adj.)middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| capitalism | (noun) free enterprise etc... |
| coup | (noun) a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group |
| demagogue | (noun) a leader of people, but more a rabble rouser |
| enfranchise | (verb)to grant the privleges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| hegemony | (noun)leadership, especially of one nation over another |
| ideology | (noun) a system of social or political ideas |
| imperial | (adj.) like an emperor or an empire |
| mandate | (noun) a command or authorization to do something; the will of the voters as expressed by the results of an election |
| nepotism | (noun) showing favoritism to friends or family in business or politics |
| partisan | (noun) one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea |
| proletariat | (noun) the industrial working class |
| sedition | (noun) treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| sycophant | (noun) one who sucks up to others |
| usurp | (verb) to seize wrongfully |
