Social Studies Word Wall
| Concepts | Part of Speech | Definition |
| Democracy | noun |
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Democracy 12/17) |
| pedantic | adjective |
one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/pedant 12/17) |
|
Sphere of Influence |
noun |
a territorial area within which the political influence or the interests of one nation are held to be more or less paramount (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/sphere%20of%20influence 12/17) |
| precedent | noun |
prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/precedent 12/17) |
| beatific | adjective | having a blissful appearance <a beatific smile> (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/beatific 12/17) |
| vociferously | adverb | marked by or given
to vehement insistent outcry (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/vociferously 12/17) |
| amnesty | noun | the act of an
authority (as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of
individuals (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/amnesty 12/17) |
| zealot | noun |
a fanatical partisan <a
religious zealot> (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/zealot 12/17) |
| jubilant | adjective | filled with or
expressing great joy or triumph (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/exultant 12/17) |
| capitulated | intransitive verb |
2 a: to
surrender often after negotiation of terms
b: to cease resisting
(http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/capitulate 12/17) |
| magnanimity | noun | loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity (http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/magnanimity 12/17) |