Vocabulary List 6

Analyze to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements. Take apart to look closer at. to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements. Take apart to look closer at.

Civil Disobedience the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and non-violence as the means to achieve this independence the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and non-violence as the means to achieve this independence

Collectivism a political or economic theory advocating collective control; especially over production and distribution a political or economic theory advocating collective control; especially over production and distribution

Conform to act in accord with the standards, attitudes, practices, etc. of a society or group to act in accord with the standards, attitudes, practices, etc. of a society or group

Deported to expel from a country; banish to expel from a country; banish

Domino Theory the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control

Expend to use up, or pay out to use up, or pay out

Existentialism a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their actions and choices a philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their actions and choices

Facilitate to make easier; to assist the progress of a person to make easier; to assist the progress of a person

Famine extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or large geographical area extreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or large geographical area

Genocide The systematic killing of an entire people The systematic killing of an entire people

Guerilla a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country a member of a loosely organized fighting force that makes surprise attacks on enemy troops occupying his or her country

Hereditary naturally passing from parent to offspring naturally passing from parent to offspring King Henry VIIIQueen Elizabeth I

Inflation persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of currency persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of currency

Proletariat in Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia in Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia