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Synonym challenge: Negative political conditions

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totalitarian
a
exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
despotic
of, pertaining to, or of the nature of an autocratic; tyrannical.
dictator
n
a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
imperialism
n
the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
dogma
n
prescribed doctrine
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absolutist
n
any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.
genocide
n
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
sociopath
n
a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
regime
n
a ruling or prevailing system.
autarchy
n
absolute sovereignty.
Draconian
a
rigorous; unusually severe or cruel
preemptory
vo
to acquire or appropriate before someone else; take for oneself; arrogate
imperious
domineering in a haughty manner; overbearing.
forcible
a
characterized by the use of force or violence.
puissant
a
powerful; mighty; potent.
amoral
a
not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.

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