LESSONS 13-15
Terms
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- status quo
- The exciting condition or state of affairs.
- dissension
- A difference in opinion. especially one that leads to contention or strife.
- covenant
- A binding agreement made by two or more persons or parties; compact.
- emissary
- An agent sent to represent or advance the interesting of a person, group, or nation.
- inheret
- Existing in someone or something as a natural, essential part, quality, or characteristic.
- attache
- A person official assigned to the staff of a diplomatic office inn a foreign country to serve in some particular capacity.
- antagonist
- One who opposes and actively competes with another; adversary.
- arbitration
- The process by which the parties in a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent.
- retribution
- Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment.
- entente
- An agreement between two or more governments or powers or powers for cooperative action or policy.
- Machiavellian
- Of or pertaining to the doctirine of the italian diplomat NBiccolo Machiavello, a doctrine which denies the relevance of morality on a political affairs and holds that craft and a deceit are justifies in pursuing and maintainable political power.
- altercation
- A heated and noisy quarrel.
- facsimile
- An exact reproduction or copy.
- dissimulate
- To disguise under a feigned appearance.
- discretion
- The quality of demonstrating a cautious reserve in one's speech or behaviors; prudence.
- semblance
- An outward of token appearance; form.
- schism
- A separation or division into factions.
- affront
- To insult intentionally.
- breach
- A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; estrangements.
- ensemble
- Any unit or group complementary parts that contribute to a single effect.
- contentious
- Quarrelsome.
- rancor
- Bitter, long lasting resentment; ill will.
- segregate
- To isolate or separate from others or from the main group.
- consulate
- The premises occupied by a consul, an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign city in order to represent his or her governments commercial interests and to give assistance to its citizens there.
- adhere
- To stick fast or together by or as if by grasping, suction, or being glued.
- aggregate
- Gathered together into a mass so as to constitute a whole; total.
- gregarious
- Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable.
- bellicose
- Warlike in manner or temperament.
- protocol
- The forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of stats.
- egregious
- Outstandingly bad, flagrant.