Printable Synonym challenge: Negative political conditions flash cards

totalitarian

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

a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.

imperialism

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

prescribed doctrine

absolutist

any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.

genocide

the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

sociopath

a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

regime

a ruling or prevailing system.

autarchy

absolute sovereignty.

Draconian

rigorous; unusually severe or cruel

preemptory

to acquire or appropriate before someone else; take for oneself; arrogate

imperious

domineering in a haughty manner; overbearing.

forcible

characterized by the use of force or violence.

puissant

powerful; mighty; potent.

amoral

not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.

totalitarian

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

a person exercising absolute power, especially a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.

imperialism

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

prescribed doctrine

absolutist

any theory holding that values, principles, etc., are absolute and not relative, dependent, or changeable.

genocide

the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

sociopath

a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.

regime

a ruling or prevailing system.

autarchy

absolute sovereignty.

Draconian

rigorous; unusually severe or cruel

preemptory

to acquire or appropriate before someone else; take for oneself; arrogate

imperious

domineering in a haughty manner; overbearing.

forcible

characterized by the use of force or violence.

puissant

powerful; mighty; potent.

amoral

not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.