Vocabulary

Question 1

abstruse
adjective ab·struse\əb-ˈstrüs\

 AB Struce (ab like abdomen Struce like strudel) 
formal:  difficult to comprehend : recondite the abstruse calculations of mathematicians abstruse concepts/ideas/theories

noun
ho·​mun·​cu·​lus | \ hō-ˈməŋ-kyə-ləs \
plural ho​mun​cu​li \ hō-ˈməŋ-kyə-ˌlī , -ˌlē \
Collegiate Definition
1 : a little man : MANIKIN. The little man/woman inside you that does your thinking and all actions. The imaginary you, in your body.
2 : a miniature adult that in the theory of preformation is held to inhabit the germ cell and to produce a mature individual merely by an increase in size

Answer 1

pyr·rhic1
/ˈpirik/
adjective
(of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.

Question 2

au·​toc·​ra·​cy | \ ȯ-ˈtä-krə-sē Ah TAK rah C
plural au​toc​ra​cies
Definition
1 : the authority or rule of an autocrat
2 : government in which one person possesses unlimited power
3 : a community or state governed by autocracy
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
absolutism, autarchy, authoritarianism, Caesarism, czarism (also tsarism or tzarism), despotism, dictatorship, totalism, totalitarianism, tyranny
Examples
The Magna Carta is historically important because it signified the British rejection of autocracy and constituted the first formal restraining of the power of the monarch

Trump is an autocrat. He thinks himself a king! His followers think he can do no wrong because they view him as the chosen one. Their savior. A dictator like Hitler, or Mussolini.

From the documentary, “UNFIT”. It explains like the movie “2001 a space Odyssey. The group of monkeys start to get divided and instead of working together they begin to fight each other with a bone. Documentary states that democratic cultures always break down into factions and chaos rules the population.

Answer 2

au·​to·​crat | \ ˈȯ-tə-ˌkrat \
Definition
1 : a person (such as a monarch) ruling with unlimited authority
2 : one who has undisputed influence or power
//He was the autocrat of his household.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
monarch, potentate, ruler, sovereign (also sovran)
Examples
//European autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God.

Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who has no regard for whomever he runs over and destroys, including the United States of America.