Vocabulary !!

    Cards (33)

    • Subjugation - Oppression or conquest: one group takes control over another, forcing them to do as they're told
    • Propaganda - Information (especially biased or misleading) used to promote a political cause or point of view
    • Tyrannical - The behaviour of someone who governs their people in an unjust or violent way
    • Subservient - To be prepared to obey others unquestioningly
    • Parody - A satire that imitates the style of a particular work or genre
    • Allegory - A story with symbolic meanings representing real-life situations
    • Insidious - To behave in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects
    • Disparity - A great difference
    • Guile - Sly or cunning intelligence
    • Duplicitous - Deceitful;to cheat or lie
    • Acquiesce - To accept something reluctantly but without protest
    • Communism - A political system in which the government owns and controls the means of production and the economy is planned and controlled by the state
    • Capitalism - An economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and profit is the main motivation for businesses
    • Blatant - Something bad that's done openly and unashamedly
    • Treachery - A complete betrayal of trust
    • Depravity - Moral corruption;wickedness
    • Subterfuge - A scheme, plot or lie to achieve one's goals
    • Totalitarianism - A system of government where one person holds all the power and usually abuses that power
    • Political Diatribe - An attack on the political status
    • Didactic - Educational, used as a purpose
    • Disenfranchised - Being left out of society/deprived of rights
    • Sadism - The enjoyment of seeing people in pain
    • Machiavellian - Cunning, scheming and unscrupulous (showing no morals) , especially in politics
    • Anthropomorphism - The attribution of human characteristics,emotions, and behaviours to animals or other non-human things
    • Utopia - A place of ideal perfection
    • Socialism - Shared ownership of production equally among society
    • Capitalism -  An economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government
    • Rebuttal - A state that a claim/criticism is not true/denial,invalidation
    • The political left - Ideas such as freedom, equality and rights
    • Fraternity - Friendship and mutual support within group
    • Reform - To make/making changes in order to improve
    • Cynical - Being deeply distrustful of human sincerity or integrity
    • Republic - A group with a certain equality between its members