Breaking Barriers Vocab Quiz 1

to affect someone or something in an important way

• influence

• important

• push

rule by, ruler

• king

• democracy

• crat/cracy

a government in which people elect their own leaders or rulers

• slang

• democracy

• theme

language spoken by a group of people in a region or area

• vernacular

• slang

• influence

an informal way of speaking; harsh or coarse language 

• yell

• slang

• scream

the central message of a literary work; an idea developed in a text that conveys a message or truth about life and the human experience.

• theme

• constitution

• context

chances to do something

• vernacular

• opportunity

• choice

the act of keeping separate or apart.

• segregation

• separate

• away

the governing body of a nation, state, or community.

• government

• president

• mayor

areas in South Africa for residence of "tribal" African peoples; overpopulated and poverty-stricken.

• country

• tribe

• homelands