​Concord

• ​Noun

• ​A  state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant

• A spirit of concord was restored when the company finally paid its workers for their overtime hours.

​Decry

• ​verb

• ​to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate

• Every arm of government and every educational institution should decry bigotry in all its forms.

​Equity

• ​noun

• ​the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair

  Prompted by considerations of equity, the father decided to divide his estate equally among all his children, male and female.

​Incendiary

• ​adjective

• ​deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion

  In the 1880s, the idea that women should own their own property was incendiary. 

​Increment

• ​noun

• ​an enlargement, increase, addition

  The minimum wage is being raised in increments of $0.50 until we reach a total of $15/hour.

​Iniquity

• ​noun

• ​wickedness, sin; a grossly immoral act

  English Puritans looked upon the court that surrounded Charles I as a den of iniquity.

​Rectitude

• ​noun

• ​uprightness, righteousness; correctness

  The mayor is a person of unquestionable rectitude. Nobody would question his morals or judgement.

​Substantive

• ​adjective

• ​real, having a solid basis; considerable in number or amount; meaningful and on topic

  We have to work together to effect substantive change.

​Travesty

• ​noun

• ​a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation

  Instead of modernizing Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, they made a travesty of it.

​Utopian

• ​adjective

• f​ounded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical

  A number of American religious groups like the Shakers have built separate communities based on utopian schemes.