keywords and flashcards

• precludes


  prevents
• primitive


  utterly ridiculous
• demeaning


  causing someone to lose dignity
• negligence 


  failure to take proper care
• conservative


  holding traditional values
• repugnance


  hatred
• avarice 


  greed for wealth
• cupidity


  greed for money and possessions
• egocentric 


  only caring about yourself
• predicament 


  embarrassing situation
• predicament


  embarrassing situation
• cardinal


  regarding religion
• sardonic


  cynical, questioning
• debonair


  charming
• callousness


  cruel disregard for others
• gratification


  pleasure
• Micheton 


  Customer of a prostitute
• subjugated 


  bring under domination/control
• aposiopesis


  Abrupt break off in speech
• clandestine


  in secret
• meritocracy 


  when people get success/power through there own ways, not exploitation
• propagates


  spreads
• ambivalence 


  uncertainty
• commercialisation 


  managing someone in a way to make profit from them
• convention 


  traditional way of doing something
• complacency 


  a smug, confidence satisfaction in yourself or achievements
• culpable


  taking responsibility for your wrongdoing
• bigotry


  treating those who are different/have different views with unfairness ‘governed by bigotr’
• callous


  ignoring others and their needs in an insensitive way
• autonomy


  right and ability to govern yourself
• allegory


  story, place or character used to convey a hidden meaning
• microcosm 


  something that represents something bigger
• inherent


  being an essential part of something
• scapegoat


  a person who is blamed for the faults of others
• welfare state


  a system of government where the state protects and promotes individuals social and economic well-being
• socialite


  someone who is important and well known
• willful ignorance 


  choosing to avoid acknowledging something so that you don’t have to make difficult desicions because of it
• vice


  behaviour trait that is immoral
• virtue 


  behaviour trait that is moral
• disenfranchisement 


  not having the right to vote