| 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 or policy |
| 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 perjorative sense; boringly conventional |
| 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 goverment intervention |
| coup | brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group |
| demagogue | a leader of the people, but more of a rabble rouser |
| enfranchise | to grant privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| hegemony | leadership, especially of one government over another |
| ideology | a system of social or political ideas |
| imperial | like an emperor or 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 friends or family in business or politics |
| partisan | one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea |
| proletariat | the industrial working class |
| sedition | treason; the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering those in power |
| usurp | to seize wrongfully |
