Vocabulary Week 03/14-03/21

The homework (pick ONE of the three options) for these words will be due on:______

The quiz for these words will be on:______

Homework Options (Choose ONE):

1. Write an interesting sentence that displays you understand the meaning of the word. One sentence per word. Underline the vocab word.

2. Create a flashcard for each word, including the definition and two synonyms (you may create flashcards on Quizlet - share them with me by clicking on the “Quizlet” link on the class website homepage.)

3. Write each word, two synonyms, and draw an image that helps you to remember the word on a blank piece of paper

  1. Subversive: (adj) a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working secretly from within
  2. Malignant: (adj) evil in nature, influence, or effect
  3. Scapegoat: (n) one who bears the blame for others
  4. Comrade: (n) an intimate friend; OR a fellow soldier
  5. Fascism: (n) a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
  6. Communism: (n)

–An economictheory advocating elimination of private property in which goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed;

–A doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; a final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

–a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production

7. Socialism (n):

–any economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and

administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

–a system of society or group living in which there is no private property

–a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

8. Capitalism: (n) an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by

investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

9. Authoritarianism: (n) a system of government characterized by a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people

10. Totalitarianism: (n) the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state

authority