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Vocab List 1
Vocab List 1 Mrs. Joline 8th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gen | Birth,origin,race |
| Port | To Carry |
| Tele | Across |
| Arch | Most Important, Ruler, Ancient |
| Ethno | Race, Culture |
| Demo | People |
| Ethnologist | A person who studies races and peoples , their rations to one another, their origins, and their distinctive characteristics |
| Ethnicity | The cultural characteristics that connect a particular group |
| Ethnocentric | the attitude that one's own group is superior |
| Demotic | Of or relating to the common people; popular among the people (Idioms are demotic expressions because idioms are popular or well- known saying that everyone in a region understands) |
| Demagogue | A political leader who gains power by appealing to people's emotions, instincts, and projections in a way that is considered manipulative and dangerous |
| Progeny | An offspring of a person, animal, or plant |
| Genetics | Study of heredity; the branch of biology that deals with heredity and genetic variations |
| Indigenous | Produced, growing, living, or occurring natural in a particular region or environment |
| Portfolio | A large flat case for carrying documents such as maps, photographs, on drawings |
| Deportation | To expel or banish somebody back to his or her own country |
| Telemetry | The process of transmitting automatically from at a distance as if from space vehicles to receiving stations for recording and analysis |
| Telescope | An optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter |
| Oligarchy | Government by a small group of people who hold all the power |
| Patriarch | The male head of a family |
| Anarchy | Political and social disorder due to the absence of government control |