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Global Words You Should Know
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literacy
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
synthesis
stratify
adherents
2. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
primogeniture
pagan
decadent
prophesized
3. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
sect
despot
hastened
forestalling
4. The combination of parts to make a whole
nationalism
heretic
synthesis
textiles
5. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
adherents
fuse
aristocracy
pagan
6. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
conscript
monopoly
faction
paramount
7. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
adherents
fealty
primogeniture
8. To wipe out; to destroy
eradicate
fealty
indigenous
deity
9. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
inextricable
medieval
heretic
egalitarian
10. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
despot
garrison
maritime
fealty
11. Someone Who is drafted into military service
forestalling
subsequent
ethics
conscript
12. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
autonomy
theocracy
concubine
investiture
13. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
forestalling
decadent
autonomy
morality
14. Native to a certain area
innate
medieval
indigenous
ethics
15. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
inextricable
suppressed
theocracy
secular
16. Mistress
scorn
piety
concubine
patronage
17. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
adept
mystic
medieval
adherents
18. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
subordinate
concubine
papacy
manifestation
19. Incapable of being solved or untangled
sovereignty
harem
inextricable
garrison
20. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
innate
doctrine
subordinate
advent
21. Having superior power and influence
fealty
theocracy
paramount
deity
22. Control of a product or service by one company
monopoly
fealty
hierarchy
patrilineal
23. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
puritanical
positivism
harem
monopoly
24. To stop; delay - hinder
forestalling
venerate
deity
ecclesiastic
25. Relating to or associated with an empire
pluralism
ideology
pastoral
imperial
26. Believers - followers
adherents
aristocracy
forestalling
subsequent
27. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
puritanical
ecclesiastic
egalitarian
investiture
28. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
aristocracy
mortality
adept
pagan
29. A person who believes in the equality of all people
status
suppressed
egalitarian
positivism
30. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
piety
emulate
inextricable
matrilineal
31. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
indigenous
prophesized
scorn
emulate
32. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
secular
eradicate
venerate
evangelize
33. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
pagan
classical
hierarchy
sovereignty
34. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
pagan
ideology
precedent
medieval
35. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
deity
inevitable
ecclesiastic
concubine
36. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
ethnocentric
deity
stratify
decadent
37. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
evangelize
ethnocentric
hastened
emulate
38. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
sedentary
heretic
status
hastened
39. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
classical
evangelize
pastoral
secular
40. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
congregate
aristocracy
adherents
41. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
evangelize
ideology
deity
subsequent
42. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
mystic
emulate
patrilineal
pastoral
43. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
fealty
adherents
ideology
mystic
44. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eunuchs
faction
theocracy
status
45. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
autonomy
fuse
medieval
46. Natural - inborn
vigor
suppressed
innate
precedent
47. Believers - followers
adherents
hastened
harem
inextricable
48. Relating to or associated with an empire
evangelize
hastened
paramount
imperial
49. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
status
suppressed
abdicate
maritime
50. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hinterland
hierarchy
synthesis
nationalism