unit 6 Flashcards
Avant-garde
Adjective
Relating to experimental, high concept artistic, musical, or literally material
Bildungsroman
Noun
a type of novel concerned with the education and development of a young protagonist
Bolshevik
Noun
A member of the communist party
Intelligentsia
Noun
Intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political group of elites
Putsch
Noun
An attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed
Quid Pro Quo
Noun phrase
a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something
doing a favor for someone and expecting something in return
Bureaucracy
Noun
A body of non elected government officials that is often characterized by excessive red tape and routine
Capitulate
Verb
To give up. Surrender
Carnage
Noun
The slaughter of a great number of people. as in battle. massacre
Catharsis
Noun
purging the emotions or relieving emotional tensions. especially through certain kinds of art
Degenerate
Verb
To diminish in quality, especially from a former state of coherence, balance and integrity
noun
A person who has declined as in morals or characters from a type or standard, considered normal
adjective
having fallen below normal or desirable level, especially in physical or moral qualities 
emasculate
verb
to make a man feel less masculine. to deprive a man of his mail strength role
fatalism
noun
The acceptance of events as an inevitable. Submission to fate.
flagellate
verb
to whip
histrionics
noun
An insincere or exaggerated expression of emotion,dramatics