| 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 |
| 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 |
| Capitalism | free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens |
| Coup | - a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small group |
| Demagogue | a leader of the people, but more of a rabble rouser |
| Enfranchise | to grant the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| Hegemony | leader |
| Ideology | a system of social or political ideas |
| Imperial | like an emperor of an empire |
| Mandate | a command or authorization to do something |
| Nepotism | showing favoritism to friend or family |
| Partisan | one who supports another person or idea |
| Proletariat | the industrial working class |
| Sedition | public rebellion |
| Sycophant | who who sucks up to others |
| Usurp | to seize wrongfully |
