| A | B |
|---|
| Abdicate | to step down from a position of power or responsibility - V |
| Amnesty | an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy - N |
| Apartheid | the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa - N |
| Aristocratic | of noble birth; snobbish - Adj |
| Autocratic | Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy - Adj |
| Bourgeois | middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional - Adj |
| Capitalism | free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government intervention - N |
| Coup | brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group - V |
| Demagogue | a leader of the people, but more of a rabble rouser - N |
| Enfranchise | to grant privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote - V |
| Hegemony | leadership, especially of one government over another - N |
| Ideology | a system of social or political ideas - N |
| Imperial | like an emperor or empire - Adj |
| Mandate | a command or authorization to do something; the will of the voters as expressed by the results of an election - N |
| Nepotism | showing favoritism to friends or family in business or politics - N |
| Partisan | one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea - N |
| Proletariat | the industrial working class - N |
| Sedition | treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion - N |
| Sycophant | a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering those in power - N |
| Usurp | To seize wrongfully - V |
