Unit 2

2. Party/ a group of persons who seek to control the government through the winning of elections and the holding of public office.
5. powerful, strong.
6. a mean, unprincipled, or dishonest person.
9. a revolt against a government
11. causing distress.
15. unwieldy; clumsy.
18. a narrow-minded concern for, or devotion to, the interests of one section of a country.
21. to endanger, put at risk, threaten
22. the current officeholder.
23. one that comes before, precedes.

1. in an election, the number of votes that the leading candidate obtains over the next highest candidate.
3. conflicting groups.
4. intervening time.
7. relating to or concerned with ideas.
8. reasonable, practical, sensible.
10. system/ the practice of giving offices and other favors of government to political supporter and friends.
12. arrangement, grouping.
13. is a temporary alliance of several groups who come together to form a working majority and so to control a government.
14. a carrying out of an execution of something.
16. grant/ one type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy.
17. a general agreement among various groups on fundamental matters; broad agreement on public questions.
19. one on the extreme right or left in politics.
20. a single, undivided whole.