activist
Other forms: activists
An activist is a person who campaigns for some kind of social change. When you participate in a march protesting the closing of a neighborhood library, you're an activist.
Someone who's actively involved in a protest or a political or social cause can be called an activist. Demonstrations, strikes, and sit-ins are all ways that an activist might work toward the change she believes in. The root word of activist is the Latin actus, "a doing, a driving force, or an impulse." Someone who acts on what she believes is an activist.
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a reformer who works to achieve social or political changesynonyms: militantexamples:Malcolm Littlemilitant civil rights leader (1925-1965)types:Black Musliman activist member of a largely American group of Blacks called the Nation of IslamBlack Panthera member of the Black Panthers political partytype of:crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformera person or group who pushes to improve an institution or system by changing it
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advocating or engaged in activismsynonyms: activisticactivedisposed to take action or effectuate change
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This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root act, meaning "do."