Change, Rules, and Limits
This verb means to officially forbid or prevent something.
What is prohibit?
This noun means a person who lives in a particular place.
What is an inhabitant?
This word describes a person who supports equal rights and opportunities for women.
What is a feminist?
This verb means to follow established rules, expectations, or standards.
What is conform?
This noun refers to an established rule, custom, or procedure that is often considered necessary but may have little practical importance.
What is a formality?
This noun refers to a person’s social, professional, or legal position.
What is status?
This verb means to improve a system by correcting its problems.
What is reform?
This verb means to live together in the same place.
What is cohabit?
This noun means the act of setting someone free from slavery, control, or oppression.
What is emancipation?
This adjective means brotherly or relating to brothers.
What is fraternal?
This noun means proper, polite behavior expected in a formal situation.
What is decorum?
This adjective relates to a group of people who share a common cultural, national, or ancestral background.
What is ethnic?
This verb means to make an agreement, arrangement, or process official.
What is formalize?
This noun describes a temporary stay in a place.
What is a sojourn?
Frederick Douglass was this type of activist—someone who worked to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This noun can refer to a group of men joined by common interests, especially a college organization.
What is a fraternity?
This noun describes an inner restraint, fear, or feeling that prevents someone from acting freely.
What is an inhibition?
This verb means to officially connect a person or organization with a larger group.
What is affiliate?
After a serious injury, a patient may complete therapy to do this—to restore strength or ability.
What is rehabilitate?
A person who is running away from custody or danger may be described by this word.
What is a fugitive?
This noun describes unity and mutual support among people with a shared interest or goal.
What is solidarity?
This verb means to associate with others in a friendly way, sometimes with people one has been ordered to avoid.
What is fraternize?
This verb can mean to treat someone in a condescending way, as though that person were less intelligent.
What is patronize?
This adjective means the most common, powerful, noticeable, or influential.
What is predominant?
This verb means to rise above or go beyond ordinary limits, differences, or expectations.
What is transcend?
People forced to leave their homes because of war or disaster are described by this word.
What is displaced?
This noun describes the enforced separation of racial or social groups.
What is segregation?
This noun describes someone who refuses to follow society’s usual customs, beliefs, or expectations.
What is a nonconformist?
A person who has access to secret or private information is described by this word.
What is privy?
Two people who are almost always together may be described by this word.
What is inseparable?