 |
 |
Impotence |
Being powerless |
Unscrupulous |
Being untrustworthy |
Culmination |
Ending |
Coup
d'etat |
Revolution,
usually carried out by force |
Conviction |
belief |
Capitalist
|
Economic system
based on a free trading market rather than an economy controlled by the
state |
Avert
|
Avoid |
Reconstruction |
Rebuilding |
Ideological |
Based on ideas
(ie Communism) |
Subservient |
Under the
control of |
Infiltration |
Sneaking
in |
Object |
Aim |
Commonwealth |
Former British
Empire countries, usually friendly to Britain |
Inclination |
Tendency |
Colossal |
Huge |
Yoke |
Burden |
Aspirations |
hopes |
Counterblast |
Reaction |
Ostensibly |
Apparently |
Interventionist |
One of the
groups which intervened against the Communists in the Russian Civil War
of 1918-21 |
Reactionary
|
Opposed to
the revolution, usually meaning opposed to Communism |
Red
herring |
Pointless
distraction |
Encirclement |
surrounding |