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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. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
sovereignty
venerate
hinterland
affiliation
2. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
inevitable
adept
vigor
harem
3. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
inextricable
fealty
hastened
4. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
affiliation
congregate
subsequent
vigor
5. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
ethnocentric
concubine
manifestation
prophesized
6. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
theocracy
medieval
suppressed
fealty
7. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
pluralism
fealty
ideology
matrilineal
8. Incapable of being solved or untangled
patrilineal
classical
textiles
inextricable
9. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
paramount
subsequent
sect
paramount
10. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
papacy
autonomy
paramount
suppressed
11. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
matrilineal
indigenous
papacy
investiture
12. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
synthesis
advent
sovereignty
hierarchy
13. To give up power
venerate
abdicate
affiliation
evangelize
14. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
faction
congregate
patrilineal
puritanical
15. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
stratify
inextricable
aristocracy
pagan
16. The act of being formally connected or joined
concubine
patronage
affiliation
maritime
17. 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
evangelize
sect
monasticism
garrison
18. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
autonomy
innate
adherents
19. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
despot
ethnocentric
deity
imperial
20. To stop; delay - hinder
forestalling
patrilineal
mystic
ecclesiastic
21. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
deity
doctrine
harem
advent
22. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
pluralism
autonomy
eradicate
23. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
emulate
sovereignty
decadent
24. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
doctrine
concubine
adept
ethnocentric
25. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
patronage
sedentary
affiliation
26. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
patrilineal
hinterland
pluralism
27. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
sedentary
affiliation
investiture
status
28. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
ideology
stratify
heretic
inevitable
29. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
fealty
subsequent
pastoral
faction
30. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
faction
puritanical
status
theocracy
31. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
precedent
eunuchs
congregate
ethics
32. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
ethnocentric
garrison
primogeniture
evangelize
33. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
sect
mystic
autonomy
matrilineal
34. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
adherents
nationalism
medieval
puritanical
35. Woven materials; cloth
sedentary
monopoly
textiles
congregate
36. Natural - inborn
precedent
innate
affiliation
papacy
37. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
evangelize
fealty
hierarchy
suppressed
38. 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
classical
monasticism
fealty
egalitarian
39. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
papacy
matrilineal
theocracy
fealty
40. Mistress
concubine
papacy
primogeniture
hastened
41. A remote and undeveloped area
hinterland
imperial
ethnocentric
mortality
42. Belief in government run by religious leaders
doctrine
garrison
morality
theocracy
43. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
status
heretic
investiture
conscript
44. Devotion and reverence to God
hinterland
eunuchs
piety
primogeniture
45. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
pluralism
suppressed
piety
morality
46. To stop; delay - hinder
morality
pastoral
forestalling
primogeniture
47. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
doctrine
pluralism
stratify
pagan
48. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
sovereignty
venerate
hierarchy
49. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
uniformity
innate
ethnocentric
50. Death rate
sovereignty
scorn
medieval
mortality