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WHAT THE WORDS MEAN (1)

FREEDOM:

1. The quality or state of being free.
• The absence of necessity, coercion or constraint in choice or action.
• Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another.

2. A political right.

3. The power or condition of acting without compulsion.

It has a broad range of application from total absence of restraint to merely a sense of not being unduly hampered or frustrated.

MOVEMENT:

1. A series of organized activities working toward an objective.

2. An organized effort to promote or attain an end.

TERROR:

1. A state of intense fear.

2. One that inspires fear, a frightening aspect, a cause of anxiety.

3. Reign of Terror: Violence (as bombing) committed by groups in order to initimidate a population or government into granting their demands.

TERRORISM:

1. The systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.

(1) 2004 Merriam-Webster, Online