U5L21: -cracy, -crat

Mr. Niemeyer (United States of America)
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  1. bureaucrat
    a nonelective government official
  2. autocrat
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  3. bureaucracy
    a government administered primarily by nonelective officials
  4. technocracy
    a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control
  5. aristocrat
    a member of the nobility
  6. democracy
    the orientation of those who favor government by the people
  7. autocracy
    a theory favoring unlimited authority by an individual
  8. plutocracy
    a political system governed by the wealthy people
  9. democratic
    based upon the principles of social equality
  10. aristocracy
    a privileged class holding hereditary titles
Created on Thu May 09 16:05:27 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Feb 05 15:11:06 EST 2014)

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