Quizlet World cultures vocab 1

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  1. aegis: shield, protection
  2. archaic: ancient, old, prehistoric
  3. aridity: dryness
  4. autocratic: dictorial, one man ruler
  5. autonomy: self-rule
  6. beuracracy: sanction of government
  7. confrontational: creating a conflict, someone who challenges
  8. corsair: pirate
  9. detriment: something that impacts badly
  10. dissident: a person living in exile for political reasons
  11. emeritus: retired
  12. eminent: prominant
  13. epoch: era, period of time
  14. gratuitis: free unwaranted
  15. hiatus: climax
  16. impetus: incentive, momentum, impulse
  17. incendiarism: spark something that creates a fire
  18. infanticide: the killing of infants
  19. ingrained: carved into, put in, major part of
  20. innovator: one who creates something new
  21. inviolability: shouldn't be violated
  22. jurisprudence: study or field of law
  23. maladaptive: poorly adapted
  24. mercantile: having to do with trading
  25. monolithic: one piece, undivided
  26. mundane: everyday, routine
  27. nepotism: preferential hiring of one's relative
  28. oligarchy: the rule of a few
  29. paradigm: pattern, model
  30. patriarchal: men dominated society
  31. pejorative: having a tendancy to make or become worse
  32. perversion: bad change
  33. pessimist: a person who has a negative view on things
  34. pious: religious, or religiously devoted
  35. pogrom: destruction of jewish property
  36. pragmatic: practical
  37. prerequisite: something that needs to be completed before something else can be done
  38. proliferation: spread, growth
  39. restive: bulky, uneasy, restless, impatient
  40. resurgence: reapperance, rise again
  41. secular: non-religious
  42. sovereignty: independence, ruling
  43. tantamount: equal to
  44. to abrogate: to revoke, to annul, to cancel
  45. to acquisce: to accept, to agree to
  46. to assail: to attack violently
  47. to assimilate: to conform/adopt local cultures
  48. to disenfranchise: to deny certain rights against a certain group
  49. to dissent: to disagree (strongly)
  50. to expropriate: to take from someone and make your own
  51. to foray: to raid, to plunder
  52. to goad: to spurr, to urge
  53. to proselytize: to preach, to convert, to spread the word
  54. to stagnate: holding back, not moving forward
  55. vanguard: forefront of the movement
  56. vindictive: spiteful, revengeful
  57. yoke: oppression, pressure, power, control
  58. zealot: religious fantics