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Global Words You Should Know
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literacy
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
sovereignty
sect
affiliation
despot
2. Death rate
hinterland
piety
mortality
puritanical
3. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
paramount
sedentary
affiliation
sect
4. Relating to or associated with an empire
indigenous
imperial
vigor
hastened
5. Mistress
stratify
primogeniture
concubine
prophesized
6. Believers - followers
despot
adherents
subsequent
precedent
7. Strength - energy
imperial
theocracy
vigor
classical
8. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
patronage
fealty
emulate
autonomy
9. To stop; delay - hinder
pluralism
eradicate
forestalling
maritime
10. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
imperial
patrilineal
hierarchy
inevitable
11. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
egalitarian
paramount
adept
deity
12. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
nationalism
subordinate
deity
venerate
13. The act of being formally connected or joined
investiture
ecclesiastic
affiliation
hinterland
14. Code of morality
forestalling
ethics
mystic
secular
15. To wipe out; to destroy
pagan
eradicate
hastened
autonomy
16. The combination of parts to make a whole
heretic
synthesis
emulate
monopoly
17. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
manifestation
eunuchs
prophesized
18. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
subordinate
morality
secular
inevitable
19. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
vigor
sect
garrison
faction
20. Native to a certain area
nationalism
doctrine
indigenous
ideology
21. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
pagan
nationalism
hierarchy
hierarchy
22. A way of life in Which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith; living life as a monk
nationalism
emulate
puritanical
monasticism
23. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
fealty
ecclesiastic
hinterland
secular
24. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
fuse
monasticism
emulate
hinterland
25. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
investiture
fealty
venerate
26. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
monasticism
pastoral
secular
fealty
27. A person who believes in the equality of all people
egalitarian
theocracy
subsequent
ideology
28. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
ethnocentric
scorn
classical
synthesis
29. Incapable of being solved or untangled
patrilineal
sovereignty
maritime
inextricable
30. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
synthesis
ideology
prophesized
hastened
31. Code of morality
maritime
heretic
ethics
venerate
32. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
precedent
papacy
doctrine
faction
33. Woven materials; cloth
puritanical
textiles
primogeniture
pastoral
34. Devotion and reverence to God
autonomy
piety
synthesis
evangelize
35. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
theocracy
sedentary
positivism
36. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
matrilineal
piety
medieval
scorn
37. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
paramount
sect
venerate
pastoral
38. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
heretic
sovereignty
investiture
forestalling
39. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
secular
suppressed
subsequent
medieval
40. A belief - principle - or teaching
hierarchy
doctrine
vigor
venerate
41. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
inextricable
investiture
deity
42. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
ethics
medieval
manifestation
advent
43. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
advent
fuse
hinterland
affiliation
44. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
hastened
harem
textiles
mystic
45. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
indigenous
patrilineal
ideology
46. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
deity
fealty
maritime
imperial
47. Natural - inborn
adherents
innate
evangelize
indigenous
48. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
ethics
mystic
abdicate
classical
49. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
synthesis
aristocracy
mortality
evangelize
50. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
subsequent
innate
decadent
manifestation