ENG Power + Politics Vocabulary

Def, Part of Speech, Connotation

Asylum

• A shelter from danger or hardship.

• Noun

• Positive

Constituent

• One of the individual parts making up a composite entity.

• Adjective

• Neutral

Dissident

• Person who objects to some established policy.

• (Noun)

• Positive

Hegemony

• Domination or leadership of one social group over others.

• (Noun)

• Negative

Interregnum

• The time between two reigns or governments

• (Noun)

• Neutral

Junta

• A group of officers who rule a country after seizing power

• (Noun)

• Negative

Libertarian

• An advocate of freedom of thought and speech

• (Noun)

• Positive

Potentate

• A ruler who is unconstrained by law

• (Noun)

• Negative

Reactionary

• Extremely conservative

• (Adjective)

• Negative

Sedition

• An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority

• (Noun)

• Negative

Abrogate

• Revoke formally

• (Verb)

• Positive

Compel

• Force somebody to do something

• (Verb)

• Negative

Dictate

• A guiding principle

• (Verb)

• Positive

Hierarchy

• A series of ordered groupings within a system

• (noun)

• Neutral

Imperious

• Having or showing arrogant superiority

• (Adjective)

• Negative

Ostracize

• Expel from a community or group

• (verb)

• Negative

Puissant

• Powerful

• (Adjective)

• Positive

Relegate

• Assign to a lower position

• (Verb)

• Negative

Sequester

• Keep away from others

• (Verb)

• Neg

Supplant

• Take the place or move into the position of

• (verb)

• Neutral