English vocab Flashcards
Archipelago
Any sea, or sheets of water, in which there are numerous islands
Astounded
Shocked/Amazed
Conscripted
Forced to enlist into the army
Compulsory
Mandatory/Forced †o
Cataclysm
A great flood; A political/social upheaval
Displacement
The removing of something from it’s original location
Gasp
A sudden inhale or exhale
Gulag
A prison camp, primarily for political prisoners
Tenacious
Not easily giving up
Bleat
To cry as a goat, sheep, or calf
Omnipotent
Having infinite power
Zek
A prisoner held in a soviet camp
Article 58
Allowed for soviet officers to arrest anyone who they deemed suspicious/guilty
13th Amendment
Forbade slavery
Pretense
A false claim made to seem true
15th Amendment
Guaranteed that anyone could vote
Carceral
Relating to prison
Purporting
To pretend
Impotent
Powerless
Relegate
To force a person to do something meaningless
Virulent
Possessing venomous or poisonous qualities
Bestial
Relating to animals
Stringent
Rigorous
Peonage
Being forced with servitude until your debt it payed; forced labor of prisoners
Apparatus
A particular machine
Exploitation
Deriving value from natural sources by harvesting; taking advantage of someone
Harbinger
A person who indicates something;
Anything that foreshadows a future event
Pathology
The study of disease
Corpus Delicti
Evidence; body of a victim
Clemency
Mercy
Vagrancy
The state of roaming abroad from place to place
Freedman’s Bureau
Agency that Provided assistance to former slaves
Eradicate
To get rid of
Disenfranchise
To deprive of voting rights
Espousal
To support a cause, party, opinion
Disproportionate
Un-even
