Monday, February 10, 2014

My Vocabulary #1

Freedom - noun the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints; immunity from an obligation or duty

Visa - Noun A legal permit to enter a country.

Representative - Noun A person who represents others.


Refugees - Noun People who flee their country because of persecution or danger.


Principle - noun a basic truth or law or assumption; a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; a basic generalization that is accepted as true


Society - noun an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

Control - noun the activity of managing or exerting control over something

Standards - ideas about morally correct and acceptable behavior

Regulation - adj. prescribed by or according to regulation; noun the act of controlling or directing according to rule; the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular

Capitalism - noun an economic system based on private ownership of capital

Communism - noun a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society; a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

Socialism - noun a political theory advocating state ownership of industry; an economic system based on state ownership of capital

Legality - noun lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

Politics - noun the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs

Equality - noun the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status; a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

Self-Control - noun the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior; the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses

Liberty - noun freedom of choice; personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression; immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority

Moral - adj. concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles

Right - adj. correct in opinion or judgment

Duty - noun work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force

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