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Global Words You Should Know
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literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To stop; delay - hinder
primogeniture
forestalling
investiture
theocracy
2. The act of being formally connected or joined
deity
sovereignty
affiliation
ideology
3. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
deity
morality
venerate
concubine
4. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
status
decadent
inevitable
ethnocentric
5. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
manifestation
evangelize
despot
nationalism
6. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
manifestation
matrilineal
adherents
aristocracy
7. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
advent
eunuchs
pluralism
faction
8. Devotion and reverence to God
inextricable
despot
piety
uniformity
9. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
secular
investiture
advent
forestalling
10. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
aristocracy
paramount
secular
garrison
11. Native to a certain area
innate
aristocracy
indigenous
theocracy
12. A belief - principle - or teaching
abdicate
doctrine
sovereignty
aristocracy
13. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
adept
deity
adherents
matrilineal
14. Predicted; foretold
aristocracy
prophesized
egalitarian
patrilineal
15. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
advent
prophesized
advent
16. Having superior power and influence
paramount
harem
pagan
concubine
17. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
subsequent
adept
textiles
medieval
18. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
innate
precedent
morality
eunuchs
19. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
morality
sovereignty
secular
status
20. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
monopoly
secular
aristocracy
sovereignty
21. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
affiliation
evangelize
manifestation
venerate
22. A remote and undeveloped area
doctrine
ideology
hinterland
paramount
23. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
doctrine
patronage
morality
24. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
uniformity
adept
mystic
nationalism
25. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
patrilineal
harem
piety
ideology
26. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
emulate
abdicate
medieval
mortality
27. To wipe out; to destroy
eradicate
fuse
forestalling
sovereignty
28. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
mortality
heretic
subordinate
investiture
29. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
vigor
emulate
primogeniture
faction
30. Code of morality
ethics
garrison
sovereignty
stratify
31. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
despot
morality
garrison
inextricable
32. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
adept
advent
inevitable
monasticism
33. 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
stratify
monasticism
conscript
34. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
subsequent
advent
affiliation
35. Natural - inborn
innate
nationalism
ethnocentric
primogeniture
36. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
prophesized
monasticism
uniformity
heretic
37. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
inextricable
matrilineal
precedent
secular
38. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
advent
vigor
patrilineal
heretic
39. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
adherents
subordinate
mystic
adherents
40. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
deity
hinterland
maritime
patrilineal
41. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
mystic
conscript
aristocracy
abdicate
42. A person who believes in the equality of all people
sect
ecclesiastic
egalitarian
sect
43. Strength - energy
sedentary
conscript
monasticism
vigor
44. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
evangelize
precedent
status
deity
45. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
puritanical
matrilineal
monopoly
affiliation
46. Native to a certain area
secular
textiles
indigenous
nationalism
47. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
synthesis
hierarchy
patrilineal
48. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
positivism
papacy
deity
stratify
49. Independence; self-determination - political independence
venerate
suppressed
autonomy
textiles
50. Philosophy
adept
piety
sect
positivism