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socialogy2 chapter1 101 words

April 19, 2009 By renate J. (alpharetta, GA)

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  1. infrequently
    not many times
  2. sporadic
    recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
  3. magnitude
    the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
  4. tsunami
    a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
  5. Sri Lanka
    a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
  6. ethnic
    denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
  7. Syria
    an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization
  8. daunting
    discouraging through fear
  9. beset
    assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards"
  10. insurgency
    an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict
  11. Nepal
    a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China
  12. Guatemala
    a republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; noted for low per capita income and illiteracy; politically unstable
  13. Zimbabwe
    a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980
  14. Myanmar
    a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
  15. Burma
    a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal
  16. Basque
    a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain
  17. Singapore
    an island to the south of the Malay Peninsula
  18. economic
    of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
  19. profusion
    the property of being extremely abundant
  20. terminology
    a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
  21. pejorative
    expressing disapproval
  22. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  23. objectionable
    causing disapproval or protest
  24. inferiority
    the state of being inferior
  25. excessive
    beyond normal limits
  26. optimism
    the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well
  27. optimistic
    expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
  28. economy
    the system of production and distribution and consumption
  29. Congo
    a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic
  30. Haiti
    an island in the West Indies
  31. normative
    relating to or dealing with norms
  32. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  33. bloc
    a group of countries in special alliance
  34. communist
    relating to or marked by communism
  35. residual
    relating to or indicating a remainder
  36. socioeconomic
    involving social as well as economic factors
  37. Kuwait
    an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
  38. Taiwan
    an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea
  39. affluent
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
  40. Afghanistan
    a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
  41. Yemen
    a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990
  42. Malawi
    a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964
  43. Barbados
    easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
  44. instability
    a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium
  45. repression
    the act of repressing; control by holding down
  46. manifestation
    a clear appearance
  47. imprecision
    the quality of lacking precision
  48. precision
    the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
  49. paraphrasis
    rewording for the purpose of clarification
  50. clarification
    the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
  51. Winston Churchill
    British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
  52. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
  53. conceptual
    being or characterized by concepts or their formation
  54. commonality
    sharing of common attributes
  55. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
  56. communism
    a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
  57. anachronistic
    chronologically misplaced
  58. comprehensible
    capable of being comprehended or understood
  59. repetitious
    characterized by repetition
  60. usage
    the act of using
  61. alternately
    in an alternating sequence or position
  62. interchangeably
    in an interchangeable manner
  63. interchangeable
    capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability
  64. substantial
    having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
  65. vulnerability
    the state of being vulnerable or exposed
  66. vulnerable
    capable of being wounded or hurt
  67. aspect
    a characteristic to be considered
  68. Botswana
    a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
  69. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  70. modernization
    making modern in appearance or behavior
  71. correlated
    mutually related
  72. salient
    having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
  73. domestic
    a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
  74. per capita
    per person
  75. infrastructure
    the basic structure or features of a system or organization
  76. consumption
    the act of consuming something
  77. connote
    express or state indirectly
  78. inadequate
    lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task
  79. impoverished
    poor enough to need help from others
  80. substantive
    having a firm basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or considerable
  81. mired
    entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
  82. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  83. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  84. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
  85. equitably
    in an equitable manner
  86. Thailand
    a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula
  87. Indonesia
    a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
  88. Bangladesh
    a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
  89. Saharan
    of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert
  90. Mozambique
    a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975
  91. Rwanda
    a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony
  92. Tanzania
    a republic in eastern Africa
  93. spectrum
    a broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities
  94. Lesotho
    a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
  95. Namibia
    a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa
  96. Sierra Leone
    a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961
  97. agrarian
    relating to rural matters
  98. Czech
    of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language
  99. Mongolia
    a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia
  100. egalitarian
    favoring social equality
  101. predominantly
    much greater in number or influence