Anti-Racist #2 Vocabulary Words

Question 1

Prejudice

Answer 1

An attitude towards an individual or group based on the social group they belong to.

Question 2

Empathetic

Answer 2

Showing the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.

Question 3

Sympathetic

Answer 3

Showing the ability to feel bad for someone else’s misfortune.

Question 4

Overt

Answer 4

Done openly, not being hidden.

Question 5

Microaggression

Answer 5

A negative statement that was made about those who are marginalized.

Question 6

Hostile

Answer 6

Showing feelings of unfriendliness.

Question 7

Intoxicated

Answer 7

Drunk or under the influence of drugs.

Question 8

Colonization

Answer 8

When a group of people use force to take over another group’s territory.

Question 9

Colonizer

Answer 9

A person who uses their power to dominate another group of people who they deem to be inferior.

Question 10

Ancestral trauma

Answer 10

The transmission of trauma from survivors to the next generations.

Question 11

Systemic

Answer 11

Something that happens throughout a whole system (and institution) over the course of time.

Question 12

Oppression

Answer 12

The systemic and systematic suppression of a group or groups, by a group in power.

Question 13

Civilized

Answer 13

Having an advanced culture and society.

Question 14

Assimilate

Answer 14

To take on the customs, mannerisms, and ideas of a dominant group in order to fit in.

Question 15

Resistance

Answer 15

The act of opposing something.

Question 16

Enslaved

Answer 16

When a person becomes someone else’s legal property.

Question 17

Plantation

Answer 17

An area where lots of plants are under cultivation.

Question 18

Detain

Answer 18

Keep someone in official custody.

Question 19

Advocating

Answer 19

Publicly recommending or supporting an idea.

Question 20

Liberation

Answer 20

Setting someone, or multiple people free from slavery and oppression.