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Vocabulary 29
English AP Blake vocab
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources | Memoir |
| A stroll or a walk, an area used for walking | Promenade |
| Tending or threatening to break out in violence, explosive | Volatility |
| Incorporate within oneself, make subjective or personal | Internalize |
| Having foreknowledge or foresight, seeing the future | prescient |
| Beginning to come into being or to become apparent | Incipient |
| Absolute in power or authority | Autocrat |
| Excessive zeal, extreme devotion to a belief or cause | Fanaticism |
| A government in power | Regime |
| Castrated male chicken, boss, leader | Capo |
| A consistent set of beliefs by groups or individuals | Ideology |
| To appease, soothe, pacify | Placate |
| Clumsy, stupid, crude, or awkward in behavior or demeanor | Oafish |
| Determined by chance or impulse, random | Arbitrary |
| Break apart or in two, using violence | Sunder |
| Patient endurance, capacity to endure pain, hardship | Sufferance |
| A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power | Demagogue |
| Personal inclinations or tendency | Bent |
| A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property | Liberalism |
| The ideology that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality. | Cosmopolitanism |
| A theory of government that holds that open, multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group | Pluralism |
| State of being numerous, variety | Multiplicity |
| To give up one's position of authority | Abdication |
| A combination, union, or merge for some specific purpose | Coalition |
| Disagree | Dissent |