VOCABULARY

DEMOBILIZATION

• The process of standing down a nation's armed forces from combat-ready status.
• We demobilized the enemy's army.

POPULISM

• The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common
• people in their struggle with the privileged elite.
• Populism is a very important issue in our country.

PROGRESSIVE

• Happening or developing gradually or in stages;
• proceeding step by step.
• The building was built in progressive stages.

PROHIBITION

• The action of forbidding something, esp. by law.
• The city prohibits firearms.

REFORM

• 1. make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it. "an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model" synonyms: improve, better, make better, ameliorate, refine; More bring about a change in (someone) so that they no longer behave in an immoral, criminal, or self-destructive.
• We had to reform our ways.

REFUGEES

• A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
• The refugees needed medical help.

SUBURBS

• 1. an outlying district of a city, esp. a residential one.
• My family always has lived in the suburbs.

SUFFRAGE

• the right to vote in political elections.
• Women had the hardest time in suffrage.