History and Citizenship

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