CONSCIENCE
An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior.
INTEGRITY
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
DECENCY
Moral or respectable behavior.
SERVICE
Helping and doing for others.
INTROSPECTION
The examination or observation of one’s own mental and emotional processes.
STEADFASTNESS
The quality of being resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering.
POWER
The ability to do something or act in a particular way,
GREED
Intense and selfish desire for something, especially power.
CORRUPTION
Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power.
GROUPTHINK
The practice of thinking or making decisions as a group in a way that discourages creativity or individual responsibility.
SUBSERVIENCE
Willingness to obey others unquestioningly.
ACQUIESCENCE
The reluctant acceptance of something without protest.
CAPITULATION
The action of surrendering or ceasing to resist an opponent or demand.
BRAVERY
Courageous behavior or character.
COURAGE
The ability to do something that frightens one, guts, intestinal fortitude.
CHARACTER
The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.
SURRENDER
Cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and submit to their authority.
VIGILANTE
A member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
VICTIM
A person harmed, injured, or killed.
VICTOR
A person who defeats an enemy or opponent.
VACCINE
A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity.
PLACEBO
A pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect.
RISK FACTOR
In epidemiology, a variable associated with an increased risk of disease or infection.
OUTWEIGH
Be greater or more significant than, as when risks outweigh benefits.
SIDE EFFECT
A secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug or medical treatment.
DEATH
The action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism.
PSEUDO-SCIENCE
A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
DECEIT
Concealing or misrepresenting the truth.
ARROGANCE
Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.
HUBRIS
Excessive pride or self-confidence.
OSTRACIZE
Exclude or banish (someone) from a society or group.
SECOND CLASS CITIZEN
A person belonging to a group whose rights and opportunities are inferior to those of the dominant group in a society.
PREDATOR
An animal or person that preys on others.
FEAR
Sensing that the arguments and public opinion are moving against them, authorities will redouble their efforts to instill fear.
PANIC
Sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behavior.
PRESIDENT
The elected head of a republic.
GOVERNOR
The elected executive head of a state of the U.S.
MAYOR
The elected head of a city, town, or other municipality.
LEGISLATURE
An assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, state or city. They are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches.
USURP
Take (a position of power or importance) illegally, supplant, encroach or infringe upon (someone’s rights).
CONSTITUTION
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
U.S. CONSTITUTION
Defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.
VIOLATE
Break or fail to comply, fail to respect (someone’s peace, privacy, or rights), treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect.
DICTATOR
A ruler with total power, autocrat.
UNACCOUNTABLE
Not required or expected to justify actions or decisions; not responsible for results or consequences.
EMERGENCY
A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
DURATION
The time during which something continues.
PROLONGED
Continuing for a long time or longer than usual; lengthy.
PRIVILEGES
A special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
RIGHTS
Moral and legal entitlements.
U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS
A formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of the United States of America.
HAWAII BILL OF RIGHTS
A formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of the State of Hawaii.
INVIOLABLE
Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored.
SACROSANCT
Too important or valuable to be interfered with.
VOCABULARY
The body of words known by any person.
EVADE
Escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.
TYRANNY
Cruel and oppressive government or rule.
REFUSE
Indicate or show that one is not willing to do something.
COWARD
A person who lacks the courage to do or endure dangerous or unpleasant things.
PATRIOT
A person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors, foreign or domestic.
RECOURSE
The legal right to demand compensation.
