Unit 17:Glossary
Unit 17:Glossary
Abolish: Put an end to, stop Accommodation: a place to stay
Acquisition: the act of acquiring or getting possession
Amputated: cut off (part of the body such as hand)
Annexed: incorporated into
Antagonism: hostility, opposition (between conflicting groups)
Antiquity: ancient, the period of History before the sixth century
Asylum: protection to refugees, refuge
Barter trade: exchange of goods for goods
Bipedal: having or walking on two legs
Chronology: order of events, sequence
Coercion: use of force or intimidation Consensus: general agreement
Curators: people in charge of a museum
Defile: have carnal knowledge of a minor, violate chastity of a child
Diaspora: any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, people who do not live in their home country
Dignity: being worth of respect, esteem or honour
Endeavours: an attempt to do something, effort
Epizootes: diseases among animals and humans
Famine: extreme and general scarcity of food
Fictitious: imaginative, not real
Inauguration: ceremony of putting someone as official for example, a king
Industrial revolution: the period during which work began to be more by machines in factories than by hand at home
Inherent: existing as natural part
Intimidation: fear Labia minora: the inner folds of skin of the external genitalia
Launched: started as a plan
Legendary: of a hero who was very famous in an area
Linguist: a person who studies languages
Massacre: indiscriminate killing of many people
Mythology: myths (stories or beliefs about a particular people) in general
Oases: places of water in a desert
P.b.u.h: peace be upon him
Perpetrators: people who have committed a serious crime
Pilot programme: a programme to test or start something
Possessions: property, wealth Prejudices: unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling Prospects: possibility of being successful
Redeeming: offsetting some fault
Reign: rule, authority
Sculpted: made in the manner of sculpture, formed in a particular shape
Sensitising: making aware, creating awareness
Status quo: present or cuttent condition
Strife: conflict, violent or angry disagreement Trauma: severe emotional shock
Vulnerability: state of being easy to attack or influence