National Assembly of France

The representative government of France, which wasn't fully recognized by the king and went through a lot of name and structural changes throughout the revolution.

Unalienable

A word taken directly from the Declaration of independence (hey: we don't blame them) it refers to something that can never be taken away. Such as: on your birthday you have the unalienable right to eat cake with your hands, and shame on anyone who'd try to stop you.

Members of the Social Body

Representatives serving in the National Assembly or whatever France is calling their government at the moment (it changed names a lot).

Auspices

Meaning to have support or sponsorship, in this case of a great figure. Such as: under the auspices of the great and powerful Shmoop you will pass your history test.

Supreme Being

A way of referring to a non-denominational God-like figure popular during the French Revolution.

Social distinctions

Any class system that would raise some people above others for reasons other than talent or abilities, titles of nobility being one example, snobby cliques being another.

Imprescriptible

Unable to be taken away even through a prescription or the passage of time. Such as: her shoes were covered in imprescriptible filth as no amount of water or scrubbing could ever make them clean again.

Promulgated

To publically and formally declare something. Such as: he finally promulgated his love for gummy worms by climbing onto the roof and shouting it to the neighborhood while raising a bag of the candy above his head.

Disquieted

The lack of quiet or calm, in other words to make someone anxious or afraid Such as: she was disquieted to learn that she's swallowed the bobby pin whole while attempting to hold it in her mouth.

Common contribution and Public contribution

Both are ways to refer to taxes collected from the people without actually having to say the word "taxes," which nobody likes.

Public agent

Anyone who works for the government and specifically people who are elected to represent the people by working in the government.

Indemnified

To compensate for some loss such as: each time his goldfish died he was indemnified with a trip to the pet store and a new fish to take home in a plastic bag.