Culture and Imperialism

Words Meaning Sentence

Rise of the west Progress and domination of Europe and America 19 th century is the
era of rise of the west.

Imperial Metropolitan center Centers of imperial power In19th century England was the
imperial metropolitan center of many countries.

Accumulate Gather, collect I accumulated facts of the British development in

19th century.

Territory Area of state Sub-continent was the British territory before the
world war 2.

Subject People of a state ruled by a king Muslims and Hindus

Empire a group of countries or states ruled by one government

Colonies settlements or occupied territories of an empire

Protectorates weak states under partial control of a stronger state

Dependencies dependent states

Dominions countries under foreign rule empire

Commonwealth organization of states formerly under british rule

Metropolis capital

Overseas abroad

Establishments people in power who make the policies usually to maintain the status quo

Committed bound by an oath or a promise devoted to an ideology

Tracts pieces of land regions

Subjugated enslaved brought under control

Jurisdiction area of authority

Imperium imperialistic system empire

Sovereignty political independence and authority of a state

Exterminated eliminated destroyed

Dislodged displaced plucked away driven away

Hemispheric pertaining to north or south half of the earth

Designated officially named or appointed

Discourse discussion debate public opinion

Altruism devotion to the welfare of others

Hierarchies serial order usually of the same species family or kind

Obscured hid kept back confused

Apologists those who try to justify something that was considered wrong

Social fabric structure of society

Outcast discarded exiled hated

Outlying abroad far off

Actuality reality existence

Colonialism practice by whichone countrycontrols another

Implanting engrafting fixing settling

Settlements newly populated areas usually occupied by immigrants

Political society state

Dependence depending on others

Impelled forced by an idea or feeling

Beseech request call for invite

Expension increasing in size

Subject races nation ruled by another nation

Inconsistency disagreement in accordance discord

Systemized done systematically according to a plan accusation acquiring obtaining usually by

effort or force

Augmented increased

Plantations cultivated area usually growing banana coffee tea tobacco

Enterprises business

Innovation a new idea or change

Adjacence being adjacent or next

Summoned called up

Projection of far exposure show of interests to be served flung interests or fulfilled in other
countries

Trajectories extensions

Inertia state of inaction

Investment spending money to earn profit

Going enterprises running business profitable business

Institutional forces influential agencies like east india company

Replenished refilled recovered

Protracted prolonged

Metaphysical philosophical or spiritual not related to material

Obligation duty responsibility

Domestic resistance resistance of people against policies of their own government

Unanimity consensus to hold the same way

Dark continent Africa was known by this name in the 19 th century

Colonizers settlers

Disparity difference disagreement

Billeted posted

Arrogance pride

Derived got obtained

Ivory elephant ‘s tusks a precious material

Mission civilization the mission to improve or civilize

Coherence clarity clearness

Divested themselves gave up the possession of relinquished

Era age period\

Nostalgia missing something

Unmitigated disaster destruction catastrophe

Hegemony rule or leadership by one state over others in a confederation

Decolonization giving independence to subjugated states

Dismantling demolishing

Classical empires roman empire Egyptian empire etc empires of the past

Legacy something handed down by a predecessor or ancestor

Triumph victory to conquer or to feel proud in victory to defeat

Structure form or make

Inequities unfairness or bias

Telling phrase apt words

Re-presentation presenting in a new form

Rift enmity conflict

Topography geographical appearance or features

In starkest terms in the simplest and clearest words

Hemisphere north or south half of the earth

Addresses attempted to fulfill the needs or solve the problems

Commodity marketable thing goods for sale of bargains deals

Global covering or affecting the whole world

monetary system system of balancing or regulating the flow / use of money in a state

dept trap borrowing beyond ones means and borrowing more to pay the interest on the previous
loans a vicious circle

cruet of matter the most difficult aspect or a part of matter

equitable just, balanced

untrammeled unbridled unchecked

rapacity greedy grasping of other’s rights

coined shaped,made

abandoned deserted gave up

implicitly between the lines meant but not stated tacitly

concede to give concession to admit or accept

global thinking thinking in terms of the world, as against own state or notion

cold war tussle for supremacy between capitalism and communism represented by USA and USSR
which ended with the fall of USSR.

Attest approve confirm bear witness to

Testimony evidence proof

North-south conflict economic and social disparity between the nation of northern and southern
hemisphere

Segments section

Genes birth blood nature

Appreciate understand

Canon principle policy

Ascendancy supremacy rise

Pacific rim states japan Taiwan etc

Multi-polar with more than one centres of power

Muted silent
Stridency harsh manner harshness or loudness

Pundit expert

Mindset a set of fixed attitudes or ideas, ideology

Perspicacious easily understood clearly expressed

Articulated voiced spoken loudly or clearly expressed

Demurral act or processing of objecting reluctance

Moralism justification

Raw military power pure military power sheer force

Containment restraint

Expended spent

Rotarian idealism idealistic charity

Wherewithal resources means

Memo note letter comment reminder\

Apartheid policy of racial discrimination

Adolescent early stage of growth from boyhood to youth

Alienated estranged isolated cut off

Jingoism favouring use of force or war

Isolationism alienation

Interventionism interfering with the affair of other states

Free trade unrestricted international trade with special customs concessions

Paranoid under delusions of presicution or sel importance

World responsibility US ideology of being the guardian and patron of the weaker nations

Creed belief faith ideology

Evangelical strict adherence to creed or ideology intolerance

Strident loud or harsh

Globalist champion of globalism

Subject to under governed by

Imposes enforces

The planet the earth

Writ authority

Triumphalism aggressive pride in victory

Manufacturing consent obtaining consent by false arguments or by force

Undeterred unstopped unchecked

Disputations quarrelous debates debatable issues

Urbanized migrated from village to city related to town or city

Fundamentalists religion extremists , fanatics

Deformations distortions

Pathologies unreasonable views\

Disenchantments disillusionments

Run the gamut cover the whole range

Fascist extremely even violently nationalistic

Dynastic of dynasty hereditary rule

Oligarchic of government by a small group of people

Replication imitation , replay

Counter discourse arguments against

Polity Political body

Resilient Resistant

Ecology interactions between creatures and environment

Deforestation large smaller scale removal of trees

Global warming gradual increase of temperature in the atmosphere a natural phenomenon

Aerosol cans compressed packing in a tin or metal container

Eurocentric entered in Europe

Hybrid Product of more than one cultures of a new kind

Cartographic related to map or geographic

Archaeological related to study of cultures of remote past

Additive Additional added

Inherent natural inherited implied

Anti systematic against the system

Ethnic related to culture

Configurations formations

Separatist Person or group that demands a separate place or state

Uprisings revolt or riots

Homogenizing Harmonizing

Quartet set of four works lines part of a poem

Pedantic one who makes show of his learning, too much meticulous

Corollary direct result

Intransigence rigidity resistance to an opinion, refusal to accept an argument

Incarnation representing particular quality

Bravura great skill and enthusiasm in doing something artistic

Deportation forcible ejection from a country

Dispossession depriving of something

Tentative as a trial, without confidence or conviction

Exilic related to Exile