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AP world voc 2
Question | Answer | |
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regime | a mode or system of rule | |
republic | state in which supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote | |
schism | division into mutually opposing parties | |
secular | of or pertaining to worldly things not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred | |
sovereignty | supreme and independent power in government as possessed by a state | |
standardization | to bring to or make of an established standard size | |
steppe | an extensive plain, esp. with no trees | |
subsidy | sum paid by one government to another to secure service in return | |
syncretism | attempted union of opposing parties | |
synthesis | combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single one | |
tariff | official table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports and exports | |
technology | deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life | |
urban | living in the city | |
mysticism | experience of mystical union with ultimate reality reported by mystics | |
pantheism | doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe | |
philosophy | 1.a theory regarding a sphere of thought | search for a general understanding of values and 2.reality by speculative rather than observational means |
piety | devout fulfillment of religious obligations | |
patriarchal | system of society ruled by men | |
polytheism | belief in more than one God |