Human Rights Word List

Davis B. (United States of America)
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
  3. arrest
    take into custody
  4. assembly
    a group of persons gathered together for a common purpose
  5. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
  6. basis
    the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun
  7. charge
    assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
  8. choose
    pick out from a number of alternatives
  9. committed
    bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a cause or action
  10. compel
    force somebody to do something
  11. conscience
    motivation deriving from ethical or moral principles
  12. consent
    give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
  13. constitute
    form or compose
  14. contrary
    exact opposition
  15. correspondence
    an attribute of a shape or relation
  16. cruel
    able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  17. cultural
    relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society
  18. degrading
    characterized by dishonor
  19. deny
    declare untrue; contradict
  20. deprived
    marked by a state of extreme poverty
  21. destruction
    an event that completely ruins something
  22. dignity
    the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
  23. discrimination
    unfair treatment of a person or group based on prejudice
  24. duty
    the social force that obliges you to behave in a certain way
  25. employment
    the state of having a job
  26. endowed
    provided or supplied or equipped with
  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
    serving as an essential component
  32. furthermore
    in addition
  33. genuinely
    in accordance with truth or fact or reality
  34. guilty
    responsible for or chargeable with wrongdoing
  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
    charge and collect payment
  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
  48. limitation
    an act of restricting (as by regulation)
  49. manifest
    clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
  50. merit
    the quality of being deserving
  51. moral
    concerned with principles of right and wrong
  52. movement
    change of position that does not entail a change of location
  53. nationality
    the status of belonging to a particular country
  54. omission
    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
    causing someone to suffer
  58. personality
    the complex of attributes that characterize an 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 shielding someone or something
  63. proved
    established beyond doubt
  64. punishment
    the act of imposing a penalty
  65. reasonable
    showing sound judgment
  66. recognition
    identifying something or someone by remembering
  67. remuneration
    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
    the state of being required to labor for someone else
  72. sex
    one of two categories into which most organisms are divided
  73. slavery
    the state of being in forced servitude to 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 to vote
  77. supplement
    an additional component that improves capability
  78. tolerance
    willingness to respect the beliefs or practices of others
  79. torture
    infliction of suffering to punish or obtain information
  80. trade union
    an employee organization that bargains with an employer
  81. wedlock
    the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined
  82. widowhood
    the state of being a widow who has not remarried
  83. will
    the capability of conscious choice and decision
Created on Tue Dec 16 14:16:00 EST 2008 (updated Tue Dec 16 16:04:49 EST 2008)

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