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Able Having the power to do something.

Abuse Bad treatment causing harm or injury.

Accuse To say a person is responsible for crime.

Activist One who seeks change through actions.

Aggression An attack against a person or country.

Amend To add to or to change.

Anarchy A lack of order.

Ancestor A family member for the past.Artillery Big Guns

Attempt To work towards something.

Cabinet A group of ministers that helps lead a government.

Capture To make a person or animal a prisoner.

Ceasefire A halt in fighting usually by agreement.

Century One hundred years.

Claim To say something as fact.

Coalition Forces, groups or nations joined together.

Comment To say something about.

Condemn To say a person or action in wrong or bad.

Conflict A fight.

Conservative One who usually supports traditions and opposes great change.

Convention A large meeting for a special purpose.

Corruption Action taken to gain money or power that are legally wrong.

Crises An extremely important time when something may become much better or worse.

Criticize To say what is wrong with something or someone.

Crush To damage or destroy by great weight.

Curfew An order to people to stay off the streets or to close their business.

Dissident A person who strongly disagrees with his or her government.

Drown To die under water.

Debate Public discussion or argument.Defend To protect

Delegate One who

Denounce To criticize severely.

Deny To refuse a request

Deplore To regret strongly.

Detain Keeping on hold.

Enforce To make something be done.

Ethnic

Evidence A reason for believing.

Execute To Kill.

Exile To force a person to leave his/her country.Federal National or Federal Govt.

Fierce Extremely Strong.

Flee To Run away.

Genocide A plan of action to kill a national or ethnic group.

Guilty Responsible for a bad action.

Halt To stop.

Harvest Cutting the crops.

Holy Greatly honor in religion.

Hostage A person capture and hold as a guarantee that a demand or promise wise to be

honored.

Hostile Ready to fight.

Humor The ability to understand.

Inflation A continuing rise in prices.

Insane Mentally sick

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Intense Very Strongly

Interfere To get in the way of

Intervene To come between in order to solve.

Invade To enter a country by force with an army.

Jury A group of people choose to decide what is true in a trial.

Justice The quality of being right.

Kidnap To seize and take away by force.

Kind Gentle.Knowledge That what is known.

Laboratory A room or place where experiment in science are done.

Launch To begin

Legal Agreement with the law.

Legislature A govt. law making group.

Lend To make loan of money.

Lonely Feeling alone and wanting for friends.

Loyal Showing strong friends and support for someone or something.

Mayor The chief official of the city or town govt.

Memorial Something done to honor the memory of a person or event.

Militant Someone active in trying to cause political change often by the use of force.

Mourn To feel or express sadness.

Mystery A secret.

Narrow Limited in size.

Native Some who was born in a place.

Navy The part of a countrys military force trained to fight at sea.

Negotiate To talk about a problem to find a common solution.

Nominate To name someone as a candidate for a election.

Obey To act as one is ordered to act.

Observe To watch

Offensive A military campaign of attacks

Often Many times

Oppress To make others suffer.

Organize To put in order.

Oust To force to leave.

Overthrow To remove from power.

Owe To pay usually money in written for something received.

Parade A group of people and vehicles moving together to celebrate a special event.

Persuade To cause someone to do something by explaining.

Possess To own

Postpone To delay action until a later time.

Poverty the condition of being poor.Propaganda Ideas used to influence opinions.