Topic 15 vocabulary (set 3)

a government run by religious power

• theocracy
• meritocracy
• plutocracy
• autocracy

separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

• enclave
• ghetto
• metropolis
• suburb

an official act ending a marriage

• wedding
• marriage
• honeymoon
• annulment

an official public order made by a king or other authority

• Amendment
• Edict
• Proclamation
• Decree

a fleet of warships

• armada

• a flock of birds
• a herd of cattle
• a pack of wolves

a form of government in which power is shared between local and national levels

• monarchy
• anarchy
• oligarchy
• federalism

the belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason

• Empiricism
• Rationalism
• Skepticism
• Nihilism

the theory that places the sun at the center of the universe

• paleontology
• geocentrism
• heliocentric theory

• astrology

a belief that is rejected by official Church doctrine

• doctrine
• heresy
• faithfulness
• orthodoxy

theory that all knowledge is gained through experience and observing with the senses

• Skepticism
• Empiricism
• Idealism
• Rationalism