"The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century," Vocabulary from Chapter 25

This list focuses on the conservative tide (Unit 7, Chapter 25).

Here are links to all the chapters in Unit 7, Passage to a New Century: Chapter 24, Chapter 25, Chapter 26, Epilogue

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  1. entitlement
    right granted by law or contract
  2. resentment
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
  3. skepticism
    doubt about the truth of something
  4. moral
    concerned with principles of right and wrong
  5. majority
    the main part
  6. affable
    diffusing warmth and friendliness
  7. commitment
    the act of binding yourself to a course of action
  8. perilous
    fraught with danger
  9. downsize
    reduce in magnitude or number
  10. budget
    a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
  11. offset
    compensate for or counterbalance
  12. deregulation
    the act of freeing from rules
  13. acquired
    gotten through environmental forces
  14. immune
    relating to or conferring resistance to disease
  15. syndrome
    a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
  16. virus
    infectious agent that replicates itself within living hosts
  17. epidemic
    a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
  18. reproductive
    producing new life or offspring
  19. procedure
    a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
  20. conception
    the event that occurred at the beginning of something
  21. privacy
    the condition of being concealed or hidden
  22. addiction
    being dependent on something habit-forming
  23. admonish
    counsel in terms of someone's behavior
  24. lag
    hang or fall in movement, progress, development, etc.
  25. emphasis
    special importance or significance
  26. inadequate
    lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
  27. deteriorate
    become worse or disintegrate
  28. equity
    the quality of being fair, reasonable, or impartial
  29. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
  30. intermediate
    around the middle of a scale of evaluation
  31. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  32. premier
    the person who is head of state
  33. inquiry
    a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
  34. assault
    close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
  35. approval
    a message expressing a favorable opinion
Created on Wed Nov 16 14:08:22 EST 2016 (updated Wed Nov 23 14:10:26 EST 2016)

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