“The Times Are A-Changing” Spelling/Vocabulary Lists

List 1

Quiz Date ______

1. prejudice - unreasonable feelings or attitudes regarding a race, religion, or nationality.

2. feminism – an organized movement to attain social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.

3. solidarity - community of feelings, purposes, responsibilities and interests.

4. inequity- lack of fairness.

5. inequality - the condition of being unequal; lack of equality

6. equality - like or alike in quantity, degree, value, etc.; of the same rank, ability, merit, etc.

7. injustice - an unjust or unfair act; wrong.

8. unconstitutional - unauthorized by or inconsistent with the rights of the constitution.

9. discrimination - treating people differently due to prejudice about race, religion, gender, etc.

10. lobbying - to try to influence the votes of members of a legislative body.

List 2

Quiz Date ______

1. racism - hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

2. justice - the quality of moral rightness.

3. oppression - the exercise of authority or power in a cruel or unjust manner.

4. segregation - the separation of a specific group from the general body of society.

5. nonviolence - absence or lack of violence.

6. tolerance - a fair or objective attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.

7. boycott - to abstain from buying or using.

8. minorities - a group differing, especially in race, religion, or ethnicity, from the majority of a population.

9. integration - to give equal opportunity and consideration to a race, religion, or ethnic group.

10. resistance - the act or power of resisting or opposing.

List 3

Quiz Date ______

1. communism- a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a government.

2. wane - to decrease in strength, intensity.

3. endeavor - to attempt to achieve or gain.

4. atrocities - extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal.

5. inferior - less important, valuable, or worthy.

6. sanction - to authorize, approve, or allow.

7. vociferous - crying out noisily.

8. unrest - troubled, or uneasy state.

9. sullen – a gloomy attitude.

10. induction - bringing about, or causing.