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Glossary

Affiliation
A person or organization associated with another.

Appropriation
Something that has been set aside by formal actions for a specific use.

Censure
An expression of blame or disapproval.

Communist
A member of a government that professes a classless society and by common ownership of production and subsistence.

Competence
Being capable.

Conscientious
Acting on one's understanding of right and wrong.

Conviction
The act of finding guilty.

Democracy
Government by the people.

Envisaged
To see the possibilities of something coming true.

Expediency
Appropriateness to the purpose at hand; a means to an end.

Fascist
Person supporting a government that is run by a dictator.

Fifth Amendment
Each person accused of a crime has the right to due process, protection from double jeopardy and the right not to incriminate oneself in testimony.

First Amendment
Freedom of speech, assembly, press, religion.

Heterodoxy
Not in agreement with accepted beliefs.

Hysteria
Behavior exhibiting overwhelming fear.

Implication
To involve intimately or incriminate.

Inherent
Belonging by nature or habit.

Integrity
Living by a code of behavior.

Judicious
Having or exhibiting sound judgment.

Odious
Hatred.

Orthodoxy
State of accepting traditional norms.

Perjury
The deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading or incomplete testimony on a relevant matter, by a witness under oath in a criminal proceeding.

Pertinent
Having a clear decisive relevance to the model at hand.

Police State
A country or other political unit in which the government exercised rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life; especially by means of a secret police force.

Prescribing
To set down as a rule.

Purges
To rid a nation, political party or organization of anyone not desired.

Revelation
An act of revealing; to view or make known.

Severance Pay
Act of giving money when fired or laid off from a job.

Subversive
Intending to overthrow or undermine an established government.

Totalitarian
A government upheld by authoritarian means.

Tyranny
A government in which a single ruler is vested with absolute power.

Unorthodox
Breaking with tradition.

Vengeance
To an extreme or excessive degree.

Vitality
A capacity to live and develop; the power of endurance.