vocabulary history

5. person who has the direction or management of some public business, the affairs of an establishment,
7. remove or reduce the population of, as by destruction or expulsion.
8. fleet sent against England by Philip II of Spain in 1588. It was defeated by the English navy and later dispersed and wrecked by storms.
9. a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution.
10. distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
13. confidential; secret.
15. political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration
16. economic system in which prices and wages are determined by unrestricted competition between businesses, without government regulation or fear of monopolies.
17. to or of the nature of autocracy or of an autocrat; absolute
18. ports are ports that remain ice-free all year.
20. act or practice of censoring.
21. form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
22. that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights.
23. monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.

1. or relating to the constitution of a state, organization, etc
2. designed to prevent the flooding of a river.
3. History. a member of the old nobility of Russia, before Peter the Great made rank dependent on state service.
4. king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.
6. distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
10. person whodissents, as from an established church, political party, or majority opinion.
11. person who elects or may elect, especially a qualified voter.
12. principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society.
14. economic and political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a freely competitive market through the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of governmental intervention and regulation.
19. division into or distribution in portions or shares