Dictatorship

A system of government in which one person has absolute rule



Word Structure

dik-TEY-ter-ship

Sentence Examples

The dictatorship runs the show.

North Korea is a dictatorship.

The dictatorship used propaganda.

Semantic Relatives

autocracy

authoritarian

government

Morphological Relatives 1

dictator

dictatorial

friendship

leadership

Morphological Relative 2

township

Textbook

Explore World History Chapter 8 by Attainment

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