Period 4 Vocabulary

Question 1

Cataclysm

Answer 1

A large scale and violent event

Question 2

Coercion

Answer 2

The act of persuading someone by using force or threats

Question 3

Pariah

Answer 3

A social outcast

Question 4

Abdicate

Answer 4

To give up the throne

Question 5

Precursor

Answer 5

Something pre-existing that indicates the approach of something else

Question 6

Provisional

Answer 6

Temporarily existing until replaced by something permanent

Question 7

Coup

Answer 7

A sudden, violent and illegal seizure of power

Question 8

Disillusionment

Answer 8

A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as it once seemed

Question 9

Avant-Garde

Answer 9

New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music and literature

Question 10

Grotesque

Answer 10

Comically or repulsively ugly and distorted

Question 11

Nihilism

Answer 11

The rejection of all religious and moral principles and the pessimistic belief that life is meaningless

Question 12

Paramilitary

Answer 12

Relating to a group that operates like a military but is not part of the official military

Question 13

Suppression

Answer 13

The act of preventing something by force

Question 14

Totalitarianism

Answer 14

Centralized and dictatorial government

Question 15

Ruthless

Answer 15

Showing no mercy or compassion, cruel and relentless

Question 16

Prominent

Answer 16

Widely known, important, famous

Question 17

Polarize

Answer 17

To divide or cause a divide into two sharply contrasting groups or factions

Question 18

Autocracy

Answer 18

A system of government with one person as a dictator with absolute power and authority

Question 19

Tribunal

Answer 19

A court or assembly to conduct judicial business

Question 20

Supremacy

Answer 20

The state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power or status

Question 21

Proxy

Answer 21

Involving or acting as a substitute for something or someone else

Question 22

Resuscitation

Answer 22

The act of reviving or restoring something that has been damaged or weakened