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Vocab. Unit 2
Ap W.H. Flashcards Unit 2
Question | Answer |
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Administer | To have charge of; manage. Clark was to administer the meeting between the two buyers. |
arable | Fit for cultivation, as by plowing. The land was arable to grow crops. |
architecture | Buildings and other large structures. The architectures of the city was a defining moment for the city. |
authoritarian | Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority, as against individual freedom. The government of the civilization was authoritarian. |
Barbarian | A member of a people considered by those of another nation or group to have a primitive civilization. The barbarians were going to strike again. |
Bureaucracy | Administration of a government chiefly through bureaus or departments staffed with non-elected officials. |
Citizen | A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation. |
cosmopolitan | having interest in or familiar with many parts of the world. |
Empire | Of, relating to, or characteristic of a neoclassic style, as in clothing or the decorative arts. |
ideology | The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture. |
Manuscript | A book, document, or other composition written by hand. |
merchant | One whose occupation is the wholesale purchase and retail sale of goods for profit. |
meritocracy | A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement. |
migration | to move from one country, place, or locality to another. |
nobility | the quality or state of being noble in character, quality, or rank |
Orator | one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker |
patrician | a person of high birth |
republic | a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government |
revenue | the gross income returned by an investment |
secular | not overtly or specifically religious |
Sino- | Chinese |
syncretic | the combination of different forms of belief or practice |
theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
urban | of or relating to cities and the people who live in them |
synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |