vocabulary

• autonomy


  the right and ability to be able to govern yourself, including your actions and decisions.
• bigotry


  treating those who are different of have different views from yourself with intolerance or unfairness.
• callous


  ignoring others and their needs in a cruel and insensitive way.
• commercialisation


  managing someone or something in a way to make a profit from it.
• commodity


  a useful or valuable object that can be bought or sold in trade.
• complacency


  a confident satisfaction in yourself or your achievements.
• culpable


  taking responsibility and blame for a wrongdoing.
• decadence


  a decline in morals or culture due to allowing yourself excessive pleasure or luxury.
• didactic


  intending to teach, particularly a moral lesson.
• disillusionment


  a feeling of disappointment or dissatisfaction with something after discovering that it is not as good as you believed it was.
• facade


  a front or mask that is put up to disguise something or someone’s true character.
• farce


  something that is a travesty or sham to a comical degree.
• hypocrisy


  claiming to have a certain standard or belief but acting against it.
• ideology


  a system of beliefs and ideals.
• infallible


  never failing, incapable of making mistakes.
• ignominy


  public shame or disgrace.
• indoctrination


  teaching someone or a group of people to accept a set of beliefs without question.
• inherent


  being a permanent, essential part of someone or something.
• reductive


  presenting or viewing someone in an oversimplified way, typically disrespectful or crude.
• scapegoat


  a person who is blamed for the faults of others because it is easy to target them.
• secular


  not linked to religion or spirituality.
• socialite


  someone who is well-known and important in high society, and attends many fashionable social events.
• willful ignorance


  choosing to avoid acknowledging or learning about something so that you don’t have to make difficult decisions because of it.
• vice


  a behaviour or trait that is immoral.
• virtue


  a behaviour or trait that is moral.
• disenfranchisement


  not having the right to vote.
• cupidity


  greed for money and possessions
• avarice


  greed for wealth
• abhorrent 


  inspiring disgust and loathing
• repugnance


  hatred
• nepotism


  those with power or influence favouring relatives or friends