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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. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
suppressed
innate
scorn
papacy
2. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
egalitarian
congregate
eradicate
3. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
aristocracy
patronage
affiliation
abdicate
4. Believers - followers
adherents
aristocracy
fuse
emulate
5. Belief in government run by religious leaders
deity
theocracy
paramount
maritime
6. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
garrison
eradicate
advent
textiles
7. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
matrilineal
synthesis
aristocracy
affiliation
8. A god or goddess
secular
deity
ideology
primogeniture
9. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
manifestation
prophesized
eunuchs
inevitable
10. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
monasticism
pagan
subsequent
ideology
11. Relating to or associated with an empire
lineage
sovereignty
morality
imperial
12. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
decadent
ethics
vigor
monasticism
13. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
secular
scorn
subsequent
forestalling
14. Relating to or associated with an empire
innate
imperial
classical
ecclesiastic
15. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
subordinate
ecclesiastic
sedentary
ethnocentric
16. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
heretic
innate
primogeniture
theocracy
17. Control of a product or service by one company
suppressed
monopoly
hierarchy
faction
18. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
paramount
patrilineal
pastoral
ecclesiastic
19. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
patronage
heretic
inevitable
fealty
20. Preach the gospel (to)
affiliation
paramount
evangelize
inevitable
21. Strength - energy
vigor
status
inevitable
eunuchs
22. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
inevitable
fealty
hierarchy
23. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
piety
precedent
maritime
ethnocentric
24. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
theocracy
subordinate
emulate
conscript
25. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
advent
despot
monopoly
paramount
26. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
status
aristocracy
stratify
aristocracy
27. Native to a certain area
indigenous
morality
ethics
emulate
28. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
congregate
papacy
deity
suppressed
29. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
mystic
stratify
eunuchs
secular
30. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
monopoly
decadent
lineage
uniformity
31. Strength - energy
vigor
evangelize
indigenous
pagan
32. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
positivism
ecclesiastic
heretic
33. Belief in government run by religious leaders
venerate
adept
theocracy
suppressed
34. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
sovereignty
classical
manifestation
maritime
35. Natural - inborn
classical
innate
sedentary
subsequent
36. Philosophy
sect
vigor
positivism
pagan
37. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
adept
concubine
papacy
nationalism
38. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
sovereignty
congregate
eradicate
39. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
vigor
ideology
patronage
precedent
40. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
deity
morality
fuse
manifestation
41. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
mortality
matrilineal
patronage
conscript
42. Incapable of being solved or untangled
inextricable
eradicate
prophesized
investiture
43. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
abdicate
patronage
pagan
uniformity
44. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
congregate
abdicate
decadent
45. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
nationalism
adept
egalitarian
46. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
morality
pastoral
paramount
47. Devotion and reverence to God
patrilineal
primogeniture
conscript
piety
48. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
egalitarian
morality
puritanical
sovereignty
49. To give up power
abdicate
paramount
heretic
secular
50. 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
decadent
synthesis
eunuchs
monasticism