| A | B |
|---|
| abdicate | to step down from a position 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 segragation and opression |
| aristocratic | of noble birth; snobbish |
| autocratic | ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy; |
| bourgeois | middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| capitalism | free enterpirze; an economic system in which business are owned by private citizens |
| coup | a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent over-throw of a government by a small internal group |
| demagogue | a leader of the people, but more a rabble rouser |
| enfranchise | to grant the privaleges 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 favoritism to friend or family in business or politics |
| partisan | onewho supports a particular person, cause , or idea |
| proletariat | the industrial working class |
| sedition | treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| sycophant | one who sucks up to others |
| usurp | to seize wrongfully |
