Vocabulary 1 Flashcards
(26 cards)
Beleaguered
Pestered
Entrepreneur
A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk
Aristocratic
Government by those considered to be the best or most able people in the state
Vagrancy
Homelessness, wanderer
Debacle
A general breakup or dispersion. Sudden downfall.
Avarice
Greed for extreme wealth
Vice
An immoral or evil habit or practice
Husbandry
The cultivation and production of edible crops or of foods for animals.
Demographics
A social statistic of human population.
Misogynistic
Reflecting or exhibiting hatred towards women.
Dispersed
To scatter, or to cause to vanish.
Mortality rate
The number of deaths per years as a percentage
Benign
Having a kindly disposition.
Latent
Present but not visible or apparent.
Catalyst
Something that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected.
Conspicuously
Easily seen or noticed
Orthodoxy
Adherence to accepted norms, especially in religion.
Enumerated
To mention separately as if in counting, name one by one.
Unicameral
Consisting of one single chamber, as a legislative assembly.
Habeas Corpus
A law requiring a person to be brought to court or before a judge. Used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
Dissident
Disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude.
Proprietorship
The owner of a business establishment.
Homogenous
Corresponding in structure because of a common origin.
Imbedded
Fix (an object) firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass.
