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Global Words You Should Know
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Subjects
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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. Control of a product or service by one company
monopoly
advent
emulate
hinterland
2. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
theocracy
stratify
morality
manifestation
3. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
mortality
scorn
pagan
garrison
4. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
investiture
hastened
pastoral
positivism
5. Relating to or associated with an empire
suppressed
imperial
puritanical
inevitable
6. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
ethics
classical
secular
vigor
7. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
heretic
investiture
suppressed
venerate
8. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
primogeniture
congregate
advent
9. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
abdicate
concubine
eradicate
scorn
10. A belief - principle - or teaching
patronage
doctrine
adherents
subordinate
11. Having superior power and influence
pagan
paramount
patrilineal
venerate
12. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
scorn
indigenous
monopoly
morality
13. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
inextricable
doctrine
piety
14. Independence; self-determination - political independence
autonomy
medieval
lineage
papacy
15. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
faction
monopoly
emulate
eunuchs
16. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
ideology
adherents
lineage
innate
17. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
sedentary
inextricable
imperial
primogeniture
18. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
ideology
morality
forestalling
ecclesiastic
19. To stop; delay - hinder
congregate
forestalling
ecclesiastic
scorn
20. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
hastened
subsequent
imperial
concubine
21. A remote and undeveloped area
hinterland
piety
ethnocentric
suppressed
22. Woven materials; cloth
textiles
faction
papacy
vigor
23. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
conscript
inevitable
ecclesiastic
egalitarian
24. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eradicate
eunuchs
imperial
classical
25. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
adept
piety
papacy
26. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
eradicate
faction
pastoral
hinterland
27. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
piety
pluralism
indigenous
faction
28. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
autonomy
piety
subsequent
emulate
29. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
adept
venerate
autonomy
secular
30. Believers - followers
pastoral
adherents
nationalism
despot
31. To wipe out; to destroy
innate
hinterland
venerate
eradicate
32. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
subordinate
sovereignty
investiture
33. Having superior power and influence
harem
nationalism
ecclesiastic
paramount
34. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
sovereignty
aristocracy
monasticism
manifestation
35. Predicted; foretold
puritanical
doctrine
prophesized
positivism
36. Death rate
mortality
medieval
innate
subordinate
37. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
inevitable
uniformity
patrilineal
forestalling
38. Relating to or associated with an empire
theocracy
sect
inevitable
imperial
39. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
puritanical
pagan
lineage
fuse
40. A god or goddess
piety
mystic
hastened
deity
41. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
paramount
secular
morality
primogeniture
42. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
pastoral
hastened
mortality
43. Natural - inborn
medieval
hastened
innate
textiles
44. Philosophy
subsequent
textiles
eradicate
positivism
45. A belief - principle - or teaching
emulate
pagan
doctrine
evangelize
46. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
eradicate
piety
inevitable
papacy
47. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
prophesized
scorn
papacy
venerate
48. 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
concubine
papacy
monasticism
patronage
49. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
nationalism
prophesized
monopoly
ideology
50. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
mortality
heretic
precedent
emulate