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GRADE ELEVEN CIVICS MONDAY May 11, 2020

Absenteeism- is employees’ temporary absence from work.
Abuse of power- is a wrong and excessive use of one’s power to benefit oneself.
Absolute - complete; total; full.
Accelerate - increase in speed.
Accommodative - ability to work with other.
Accountability- is an obligation to explain or answer to one or more people for one’s action.
Act - deed law.
Advocate- support, back up.
Alternative- a choice, away, offering one among several things.
Amend - make additional changes or improvements such as in a constitution.
Arbitrate- try to settle differences or conflicts among groups that are in conflict with each
other.
Apathy- lack of feeling or interest for carrying and taking action on other peoples problem.
Assembly - gathering and meeting of people especially for common purpose.
Assertiveness- is the ability to make your own decisions and carry them out with
confidence.
Attitude- way to thinking, way of looking at things.

Authority - is a power combined with the right to use that power. For example ： A

government has the highest authority to act on behalf of the state.

Autocracy - government by a ruler who has unlimited power rule by a person who has
absolute power.
Budget - is a plan for using money.
Benefits- are advantage, or things that promote the well- being of individuals or a group of
people.
Bias- be opposed unreasonably, prejudice.
Burdens- oppressive or worrisome things.
Capacity - is the ability to do or to receive somethings.
Charter- a basic legal document like a constitution.
Citizenship- entails a broad rights and responsibilities as these ate opposite sides of the
sane coin. Citizens in a democracy enjoy the right to join any organization of their choice
and to participate freely in the public life of their society.
Civic commitment - the willingness and devotion of citizens to promote the common good.
Civic dispositions- certain attitudes and habits of mind that are important to the healthy
functioning and common good of the society as a whole.
Civility - treating others with respect as individuals inherently worthy of consideration
regardless of their positions on political issues.
Common Good- the subordination of personal interest to the good of the community called
also civic virtue.
Conversation - is protecting resources against wastage and harm.
Constitution - is a fundamental law of a country.
Contraception - is action to prevent pregnancy.
Corrective justice - is concerned with fair or proper response to wrongs and injuries.
Corruption - dishonesty, open to bribe, immoral.
Courts - are government legal institution charged with interpreting the law.
Datum - is a raw fact, figure and other detail that describe people and their activities.
Dependant - is usually a person who is supported by another person.
Desert - is something a person deserves.
Dictatorship - rule by a person having complete power as in Nazi in Germany, and Fascist
in Italy, with complete absence of democracy.
Decision-making - the act of making a choice.
Divine - godly, supernatural.
Dynasty - line of the kings of the same family.
Efficient - Work well, without wasting time.
Objective - not partisan, balanced, not influenced, by personal feelings or opinions.
Obligation - duty or action to which a person is morally, or legally bound.
OMBUDSMAN - acts as an impartial agent who investigates campaigns of citizens fairly
and without bias.
Opponent - enemy, a person who opposes.
Oppression - harsh treatment of rule.
Organs - parts or division of something.
Overthrow - drive out from power through the use of force.
Pave - make ready for use by removing obstacles
Participation - involvement, to take part.
Plan- goal, short-term plan and long term part.
Platform - a common ground, idea, and aim around which different groups can come
together.
Prejudice - bias.
Prestige - respect based on good reputation, achievements and quality.
Privilege- special right or advantage enjoyed by a particular person or group of persons.
Proclaim- to make something known publicly.
Productivity- is related with the quantity and quality of work.
Progressive- showing continuous advancement of improvement.
Prominent - distinguished, separate and above from.
Public- people in general, open or known to people in general.
Punctuality - is a quality or the state of being strictly observant an appointed or regular
time.
Ratify - to approve a document (constitution) and to make it officially by signing it.
Recognize- accept the existence, validity or legality of something.
Recentness- is a reference to whether the information obtained is up to date or out- of- date.
Reading- is a process of constructing meaning from written materials, a process of sensory
reception, involving skilled eye movement and a brain process in which the meaning printed
symbol is elaborated.
Referendum- is a direct vote by all the people to decide on national issues; it is also called
plebiscite.
Reform- change
Regulate - control or supervise by means of rules and regulations.
Resources- are things we use to achieve our goals.
Rights - liberty or a choice about behaving in a certain way with which others must not
interfere.
Reliable- dependable, that can be trusted.
Representative- a person chosen to act on behalf of others.
Resist- refusing to do something.
Respect- demonstrating a high regard for others; to take other peoples ideas, opinions, and
cultures seriously even when they differed from your own.
Responsibility- is the duty or obligation of a person or a group to do something.
Reward- is something given or received in turn for some act, service, or attainment. It is a
benefit gained from fulfilling one’s own responsibility.
Rule- is a prescribed guide for conduct or action, regulation or principle.
Saving - using money and other resources wisely.
Self-awareness- is understanding about one’s need and potential.
Severance- harsh treatment
State- is an organized body of people occupying a defined territory and living under a
government entirely free from external control.
Sovereignty- is the supreme power by which any independent state is governed.
Strategy- a plan designed for a particular purpose.
Summary- without attention to details or formal procedure.
Summary execution- is carrying out death sentences without any formal procedure required
by law.
Suffrage- the right to vote in national election.
Human Right- innate rights each individual has a right to these rights simply because
he/she is human regardless of his/her nationality, belief, and sex.
Humanitarian - concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare.
Identity- that which makes some body or something what is it who or something is.
Impose- put on.
Inalienable- which can not taken away, as in human rights which already acquired simply
because people are human beings. Such rights can not be given or taken a way because they
are natural.
Inaugurate- to make a formal beginning of a period.
Income - is the money that you earn.
Indiscriminate - to make no distinction or judgement between the innocent and the
criminal.
Individualism- the feeling or the behavior of somebody, who likes to do things on his own
way, regardless of what other peoples do.
Industriousness- the habit of working hard.
Initial- at the beginning.
Initiative- doing what needs to be done without being told to do so.
Inter-act- act on each other.
Interest- is the money that banks pay you at regular intervals.
Institution - established custom; organization.
Judges- are educated civil servants who work at various court levels.
Justice- is the primary concept of fairness. Our relations with others often involve the
questions of fairness.
Justice system- refers to the different organized set of rules, laws and legal bodies and
institutions responsible for administering justice in a given country.
Judicial- that of courts, that related with judgement of the courts.
Jurisdiction- legal rights of a government, organization or a person to use its power to
decide on issues of law.
Justify - prove to be adequate or proper.
Kingdom- country ruled by king.
Knowledge- the state of being informed of something, being conscious.
Laws- are body of action or conduct laid down by the government.
Legal equality- the right of all citizens to be treated as equals before the law.
Liberal- willing to understand and tolerate the ideas, feelings and behavior of others.
Limited governments- These governments are those whose power are regulated by
established rules and regulations often stated in the constitution. This is the case in
democratic systems.
Loyalty- the quality of being true or honest to one’s group or country.
Management - using resources wisely. It involves using what you have to get and what you
need.
Mainfest- show,exhibit.
Minority- small group as compared with other group (groups).
Mobilize- prepare and organize people or resources for a particular task or active service.
Moderate - a sensible or reasonable person, not harsh, not extreme.
Monarchy- a rule by a king, queen or emperor.
Morality- is an understanding about what is right and is wrong or what is good and what is
evil.
Moral rules- are part of customs, codes, or perceptions of proper/improper behaviors.
Motivation- is the inspiration that supplies you the emotional, intellectual energy and
strength to undertake a certain activity.
Need - is a condition required supply or relief.
Negotiate- try to reach agreement or compromise by discussion with others.
Nepotism- action of government officials who favor their own relatives at expense of others.
Nigus- king.
Nobility- class of nobles (noblemen); belonging by rank, title of birth to the aristocracy, the
privileged class.
Notable- important
Nacleus -core, or central part.
Team work - working together with others for common good; cooperation.
Terror- very great fear, acts that causes great fear.
Toil- to perform hard work.
Tolerance- accepting and respecting other peoples customs and beliefs.
Transition- period between the old and the new.
Transitional- changing from one form to another as in the case of Ethiopian transitional
period from military dictatorship to constitutional democracy (1991- 1995)
Transparency - is the duty of government officials to perform their duties according to the
principle of the constitution.
Tyranny- cruel use of force or despotic power by a ruler or government .
Urban- connected to living in the town.
Violate- to go against.
Voluntarism- is a persons initiative taken to give services to the community not for price or
personal enrichment.
Vote- to take part in political elections.
Wisdom- the ultimate step in the knowledge spectrum.
Work- having a job and getting paid for doing it.
Work ethics- is the generally accepted guideline for right or wrong behavior.
Wrong- is some which occurs or behaves in a way that violates a duty or responsibility
imposed by laws, customs, or moral values.