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AP world voc 2
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| regime | a mode or system of rule | |
| republic | state in which supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote | |
| schism | division into mutually opposing parties | |
| secular | of or pertaining to worldly things not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred | |
| sovereignty | supreme and independent power in government as possessed by a state | |
| standardization | to bring to or make of an established standard size | |
| steppe | an extensive plain, esp. with no trees | |
| subsidy | sum paid by one government to another to secure service in return | |
| syncretism | attempted union of opposing parties | |
| synthesis | combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single one | |
| tariff | official table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports and exports | |
| technology | deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life | |
| urban | living in the city | |
| mysticism | experience of mystical union with ultimate reality reported by mystics | |
| pantheism | doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe | |
| philosophy | 1.a theory regarding a sphere of thought | search for a general understanding of values and 2.reality by speculative rather than observational means |
| piety | devout fulfillment of religious obligations | |
| patriarchal | system of society ruled by men | |
| polytheism | belief in more than one God |