Vocab

Vocab

Week 25 Vocab

autocrat (autocracy)

Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power over a state is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control. 

tradition

the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.

sanction

to make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (such as ratification) 

embargo (embargoes)

an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.