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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. Code of morality
synthesis
emulate
autonomy
ethics
2. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
pagan
morality
lineage
theocracy
3. A god or goddess
deity
fuse
stratify
monasticism
4. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
uniformity
abdicate
medieval
5. Strength - energy
despot
vigor
sect
harem
6. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
hinterland
scorn
mortality
mystic
7. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
lineage
inevitable
textiles
forestalling
8. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
emulate
affiliation
advent
despot
9. Natural - inborn
subsequent
innate
patronage
ecclesiastic
10. Devotion and reverence to God
venerate
piety
subsequent
prophesized
11. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
puritanical
concubine
decadent
abdicate
12. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
ideology
patronage
garrison
patronage
13. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
congregate
venerate
ethics
manifestation
14. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
harem
status
faction
papacy
15. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
primogeniture
puritanical
ecclesiastic
harem
16. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
eunuchs
matrilineal
advent
synthesis
17. A remote and undeveloped area
hinterland
paramount
forestalling
prophesized
18. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
advent
garrison
harem
eradicate
19. Preach the gospel (to)
paramount
sovereignty
evangelize
pastoral
20. Someone Who is drafted into military service
conscript
advent
pastoral
mortality
21. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
eradicate
eunuchs
mortality
22. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
mortality
concubine
subordinate
23. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
eradicate
subsequent
monasticism
paramount
24. 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
monasticism
hierarchy
pagan
subordinate
25. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
precedent
investiture
adherents
despot
26. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
mortality
positivism
concubine
27. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
garrison
classical
pluralism
maritime
28. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hierarchy
sedentary
theocracy
garrison
29. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
sect
eunuchs
imperial
30. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
harem
ideology
synthesis
mystic
31. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
uniformity
vigor
pastoral
paramount
32. A belief - principle - or teaching
sedentary
doctrine
maritime
hastened
33. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
monopoly
manifestation
hastened
fuse
34. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
sedentary
inevitable
fuse
conscript
35. Independence; self-determination - political independence
autonomy
subordinate
ethics
pastoral
36. Independence; self-determination - political independence
lineage
autonomy
hastened
venerate
37. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
inevitable
mortality
textiles
deity
38. Strength - energy
vigor
piety
subsequent
fuse
39. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
positivism
status
subordinate
inevitable
40. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
autonomy
textiles
suppressed
41. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
congregate
hastened
manifestation
mystic
42. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
decadent
mystic
secular
sect
43. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
autonomy
eunuchs
inevitable
44. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
sovereignty
forestalling
concubine
45. The act of being formally connected or joined
affiliation
inevitable
piety
pluralism
46. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
primogeniture
sovereignty
matrilineal
47. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
innate
despot
affiliation
stratify
48. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
synthesis
maritime
decadent
49. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
deity
advent
monopoly
primogeniture
50. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
prophesized
stratify
egalitarian
ethnocentric