Historical Power Words w 1 Abate Abate Verb
Historical Power Words w 1. Abate: Abate Verb. To make or become less strong w Use: instead of weaken w Historical Example: “The Protestant Reformation did not totally abate the power and influence of the Catholic Church. ”
Historical Power Words 2. Baffle Verb. To confuse or to perplex Use: instead of Weaken or confuse Historical Example: “The decision to invade Russian by Napoleon baffles us because we have historical hindsight. ”
Historical Power Words w 3. Cacophony Noun. A harsh, discordant sound; dissonance. w Use: noisy or confusion w Historical Example: “The cacophony created by the differing languages spoken in the mercenary troops was troublesome to the military command. ”
Historical Power Words w 4. Dalliance: Dalliance Noun. Light hearted flirtation; brief association with w Use: instead of connection (a brief one) w Historical Example: “Many a political hopeful has had dalliances with radical political ideology while studying in college. ”
Historical Power Words w 5. Earnest Adjective. Intensely serious; determined. w Use: instead of serious w Historical Example: “The campaign to unify Italy was begun in earnest by Count Camillo Cavour. ”
Historical Power Words w 6. Façade Noun. Literally, the front of a building; Also, to put up a front to deceive w Use: instead of deceive or trick w Historical Example: “The Non-Aggression Treaty between Hitler and Stalin was an ineffective façade for Hitler’s goals of a Nazi controlled Eastern Europe. ”
Historical Power Words w 7. Galvanize Verb. To rouse or unify because of a momentous event or idea; anything sudden or remarkable that brings people together w Use: instead of unify w Historical Example: “The failure of Rommell to defeat the forces under Montgomery galvanized the allied war effort. ”
Historical Power Words w 8. Habitual: Habitual Adjective. Done constantly w Use: instead of “ a lot” or often w Historical Example: “Imperial colonial exploitation in the late 19 th century became habitual particularly after the partitioning of Africa by the Congress of Berlin in 1884. ”
Historical Power Words w 9. Iconoclast: Iconoclast Noun. A person who attacks cherished beliefs. w Use: instead of revolutionary w Historical Example: “Martin Luther’s desire for reform is often characterized as iconoclastic (adj. form) because of the primacy of the catholic church. ”
Historical Power Words w 10. Jaundiced Adjective. A person who is envious w Use: instead of jealous; envious w Historical Example: “It could be purported that Henry VIII’s attack on Sir Thomas More represented his jaundiced view of the cleric’s spiritual power. ”
Historical Power Words w 11. Kismet Noun. Fate Destiny. w Use: Instead of fate, destiny w Historical Example: “What could be viewed as kismet can often be attributed to the actions of mankind. ”
Historical Power Words w 12. Laborious Adjective. Needing hard work or toil. Also, used to describe awkward or low-level writing or thinking. w Use: instead of hard; difficult. w Historical Example: “His treatment of the subject of humanism was laborious and illconceived. It lacked imagination and true scholarship”
Historical Power Words w 13. Macabre Adjective. Grim; gruesome; horrible to view w Use: Instead of gross; terrible to see; grim. w Historical Example: “The liberation of the Nazi “labor” camps was a macabre sight that plagued many of the allied and Russian soldiers for years to come. ”
Historical Power Words w 14. Nadir Noun. The lowest point in a person’s fortune; the worst it can, seemingly be. w Use: instead of low point; bottom, worst experience w Historical Example: “It would appear that the fortunes of the urban poor in London would have reached their nadir prior to the labor reform movement in the 19 th century. ”
Historical Power Words w 15. Obeisance Noun. To bow or curtsey; a sign of submission to power w Use: instead of submission; bowing down; w Historical Example: “It was presumed that obeisance was to be paid to those in religious positions. ”
Historical Power Words w 16. Palimpsest Noun. A piece of writing or material that has been written over or effaced; an idea that has been changed from the original without attribution. w Use: instead of re-written; changed w Historical Example: “It is a common notion that the ancient Egyptians were palimpsest’s for other civilizations, especially the Greeks. ”
Historical Power Words w 17. Quagmire Noun. A hazardous situation. w Use: instead of dangerous or hazardous situation w Historical Example: “The proliferation of trench warfare placed soldiers on both sides in a quagmire of disease and death in WWI”
Historical Power Words w 18. Rabid Adjective. An unreasoning or headstrong person. Fanatical. w Use: instead of true believer; w Historical Example: “The rise of fascism in the 1920’s saw rabid nationalism supplant the failed democratic experiments in both Germany and Italy. ”
Historical Power Words w 19. Sacrosanct Adjective. The most sacred and unchangeable of beliefs. w Use: instead of important or significant. w Historical Example: “The demonization of capitalism, long thought sacrosanct in socialist ideology, began to change as early as the NEP of Lenin. ”
Historical Power Words w 20. Tangential Adjective. Any ideal that spins of from a previous one. A spin-off. w Use: instead of different; branch away from w Historical Example: Anabaptism was one of many tangential religious movements in Europe after the Protestant reformation began.
Historical Power Words w 21. Umbrage Noun. An offence; A sense of slight or injury w Use: instead of insult; or take exception to w Historical Example: “Parliament took great umbrage at the fact that Charles I would restrict their ability to levy taxes, yet he would ask them to appropriate monies for war. ”
Historical Power Words w 22. Vanguard Noun. The leaders of a movement or a school of thought. w Use: instead of “at the head of”; leaders w Historical Example: “St. Simion and Fourer were in the vanguard of the Utopian Socialists in the 1830’s. ”
Historical Power Words w 23. Warrant Verb. To justify. w Use: instead of justify w Historical Example: “The actions of the mob seemed to warrant the oppressive retaliation by the police. ”
Historical Power Words w 24. Xenophobia Noun. A fear of foreigners. w Use: instead of “fear of foreigners. w Historical Example: “there are numerous examples of cruelty to immigrants because of the xenophobia of those “established” nativist groups. ”
Historical Power Words w 25. Yield Verb. To give in; to acquiesce w Use: instead of give in w Historical example: “One of the signs of the fall of an autocrat is the leaders willingness to yield to opposition forces. ”
Historical Power Words w 26. Zeitgeist Noun. (from the German) The spirit of the times. w Use: instead of prevailing attitudes; major schools of thought w Historical Example: “A true visionary is a person who not only understands the zeitgeist of a particular society, but one who can look past it and imagine what may be. ”
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