Chap. 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
To gather or collect, often in gradual degrees
Accumulate
To reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Annihilate
The quality or state of being atrocious
Atrocity
Independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions
Autonomy
Government by bureaus, administrations, and petty officials
Bureaucracy
To work, one with another
Collaborate
A person who believes in the equality of all people, especially in the political, economic or social life.
Egalitarian
Having or regarding the self or the individual as the center of all things
Egocentric
Demonstration a belief in the inherent superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture.
Ethnocentric
To make easier or less difficult; help forward
Facilitate
To overcome with surprise and bewilderment
Flabbergast
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Genocide
A member of people who do not acknowledge God; a pagan
Heathen
A professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by their church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
Heretic
Receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously.
Hospitable
The body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc.., that guides an individual, social movement, institution, class, or large group.
Ideology
Resolutely fearless
Intrepid
A general slaughter, as of persons or animals.
Massacre
Inheriting or determining descent through the female line
Matrilineal
Of, relating to, a characteristic or nomads
Nomadic
To exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc…
Ostracize
Inheriting or determining descent through the male line
Patrilineal
A pile or heap of wood or other combustible material
Pyre
To review by a brief summary at the end of a speech or discussion
Recapitulate
A reciprocal state or relation
Reciprocity
Of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred.
Secular
Cultures / people that don’t move around (opposite of nomadic)
Sedentary
To bring under complete control or subjection
Subjugate
A gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like given as due or in acknowledgement of gratitude or esteem
Tribute
Characterized by rancor or anger; violent
Vehement
