Unit 10 Vocab Flashcards
Single Word Theme Indicators (12 cards)
Alienation
Creating emotional isolation
Betrayal
Fading bonds or love, friendship, or loyalty
Conformity
Agreeing to behave as expected by social, political, familial, religious, or gender groups
Immortality
Unending existence or lasting fame
Integrity
Firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values
Materialism
A preoccupation with stress upon material rather than intellectual or spiritual things
Manipulation
To control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious mean especially to one’s own advantage
Oppression
The sense of being weighed down in body or mind; unjust or cruel exercises of authority or power
Repression
A mental process by which distressing thoughts, memories, or impulses that may give rise to anxiety are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious
Transformation
The operation of changing
Totalitarianism
The concept that citizens should be totally subject to an absolute state of authority
Vulnerability
Capable or being physically or emotionally wounded