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Human Rights Word List 83 words

December 16, 2008 By Davis B. (Alphretta, GA)
This is a list of some important words from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, passed by the United Nations after WWII with the support of Elenor Roosevelt. I use these words for vocabulary and pronunciation study on my ESL site "English with a Purpose" on Wordpress.

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  1. access
    the right to enter
  2. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
  3. arrest
    take into custody
  4. assembly
    a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
  5. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  6. basis
    the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
  7. charge
    assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
  8. choose
    pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
  9. committed
    bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude
  10. compel
    force somebody to do something
  11. conscience
    motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
  12. consent
    give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
  13. constitute
    form or compose
  14. contrary
    exact opposition
  15. correspondence
    (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
  16. cruel
    (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  17. cultural
    of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society
  18. degrading
    used of conduct; characterized by dishonor
  19. deny
    declare untrue; contradict
  20. deprived
    marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences
  21. destruction
    an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something
  22. dignity
    the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
  23. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
  24. duty
    the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
  25. employment
    the state of being employed or having a job
  26. endowed
    provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
  27. entitled
    qualified for by right according to law
  28. equal
    having the same quantity, value, or measure as another
  29. form
    a perceptual structure
  30. frontier
    a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
  31. fundamental
    any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
  32. furthermore
    in addition
  33. genuinely
    in accordance with truth or fact or reality
  34. guilty
    responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act
  35. hearing
    the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
  36. impart
    bestow a quality on
  37. impartial
    free from undue bias or preconceived opinions
  38. impose
    impose and collect
  39. incitement
    an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
  40. independent
    free from external control and constraint
  41. innocent
    free from sin
  42. interference
    the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
  43. jurisdictional
    restricted to the geographic area under a particular jurisdiction
  44. law
    the collection of rules imposed by authority
  45. leave
    go away from a place
  46. liberty
    freedom of choice
  47. life
    the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
  48. limitation
    an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
  49. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  50. merit
    the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
  51. moral
    concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles
  52. movement
    a change of position that does not entail a change of location
  53. nationality
    the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
  54. omission
    neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
  55. peaceful
    not disturbed by strife or turmoil or war
  56. periodic
    happening or recurring at regular intervals
  57. persecution
    the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
  58. personality
    the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual
  59. presumed
  60. procedure
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
  61. prohibited
    forbidden by law
  62. protection
    the activity of protecting someone or something
  63. proved
    established beyond doubt
  64. punishment
    the act of punishing
  65. reasonable
    showing reason or sound judgment
  66. recognition
    the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
  67. remuneration
    the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses
  68. reputation
    the general estimation that the public has for a person
  69. return
    go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
  70. security
    the state of being free from danger or injury
  71. servitude
    state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment
  72. sex
    either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
  73. slavery
    the state of being under the control of another person
  74. spouse
    a person's partner in marriage
  75. subject
    some situation or event that is thought about
  76. suffrage
    a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment
  77. supplement
    a supplementary component that improves capability
  78. tolerance
    willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
  79. torture
    the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
  80. trade union
    an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
  81. wedlock
    the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
  82. widowhood
    the state of being a widow who has not remarried
  83. will
    the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention