Word List Politics 402 words

Politics Vocabulary Word List (402)

• A

  absentee, accountable, activist, adverse, advertising, advice, advise, affiliation, aggressive, amendment, announcement, anthem, appeal, appearance, appoint, approach, appropriation, arguments, articulate, aspiration, asset, assimilation, at large, audience, authorization

• B

  background, bait, balanced budget, ballot, ballot box, bandwagon, barnstorm, behavior, beliefs, biannual, bias, bicameral, bill, bipartisan, boondoggle, brochure, budget, bunk, bureaucracy

• C

  cabinet, campaign, candidate, canvass, capitalize, career, catalyst, caucus, ceiling, centrist, challenge, challenger, changes, charismatic, checks and balances, choice, citation, civic, coalition, coast-to-coast, coattail, collaboration, colleague, collective, commitments, committee, commonality, communication, compassion, concede, concessions, confidence, Congress, congressional, conscience, consequence, conservative, constituent, Constitution, consultation, contribution, controversy, convene, convention, council, curiosity, cycle

• D

  dark horse, debate, decision, decisive, declaration, defeat, deficit, delegate, deliberate, deliberation, democracy, Democrat, democratic, derision, destiny, diligent, diplomat, disapproval, discourse, discreet, discussion, disheartened, dishonesty, dissatisfaction, district, distrust, diverse, division, dogma, dominate, donation, donor, dossier, dynamic

• E

  effective, efficient, elation, electoral college, elevate, eloquence, emphasis, enact, endorsement, engaging, equal, ethics, euphoria, excessive, executive, exit poll, experience

• F

  faction, federal, feud, filibuster, flawed, focus, forum, fraud, freedom, front runner, fundamental, funding, fundraiser

• G

  gambit, gerrymander, glaring, GOP, government, grass roots, grateful

• H

  handshakes, hard money, Hatch Act, heckle, historic, honesty, hooray, hypocrisy

• I

  immigrants, impound, inalienable, incentive, incorporate, incumbency, incumbent, independent, independent, indulge, infallible, influx, informative, initiative, innuendo, inspiring, integrity, interests, investigate, involvement, irresponsible, issues

• J

  jeopardy, JUBILANT, judge, judicial

• K

  keen, knowledge

• L

  lame duck, landslide, law, leader, leadership, leanings, legal, legalization, legislature, liberal, listening, lobbyist, lone, loser, loss, loyalty

• M

  magistrate, majority, mandate, meaningful, measures, media, meetings, mentor, midterm election, minority, misinformation, motives, mudslinging

• N

  national, nationwide, negativity, network, nominate, nominee, nonpartisan

• O

  obligation, obsequious, offensive, office, official, old boy, opine, opinion, opinionated, opportunity, opposition, orator(y), outspoken, ovation

• P

  PAC (political action committee), pamphlets, pardon, participation, partisanship, party, patriotism, petition, platform, pledge, plurality, polarize, policy, polite, politician, politics, poll, polling place, pollster, popular, popularity, pork barrel, position paper, pragmatist, praise, precinct, predictions, prescient, press, pride, primary, priority, proactive, process, progressive, projection, promises, propaganda, proponent, proposal, purpose

• Q

  query, quest, questions, quorum, quotes

• R

  race, ratify, re-election, reapportionment, recall, recognition, reconciliation, recount, recrimination, redistrict, referendum, reform, registration, regulate, representation, Republican, rescind, resignation, resilience, restrictions, retort, reveal, revelations, revenues, rhetoric, roll call, runoff

• S

  scope, Senate, seniority, shift, shortcoming, shuffle, sidelines, sinecure, skill, slate, slogan, solicitation, solution, spar, spectacle, speculate, spending, spin, stakes, stance, state�s rights, statute, strategist, strategy, straw poll, stump, subcommittee, subjects, success, suffrage, support, system

• T

  tactics, tally, taxpayer, term, term limit, ticket, topic, trust, turnout

• U

  ultimate, unanimous, uncommitted, unfair, uniformity, unity, unknown, unopposed, unprecedented, unwind, upcoming, upset

• V

  vacancy, veto, viable, victor, victory, vie, viewpoint, views, violations, VIP, volunteers, voter, vulnerability

• W

  ward, whistle-stop, wild-card, win, winner, withdraw, withhold, woo

• X

  xenophobic

• Y

  yell, yield

• Z

  zeal, zealous, zone