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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. Having superior power and influence
paramount
inextricable
puritanical
fuse
2. Strength - energy
vigor
scorn
secular
evangelize
3. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
papacy
maritime
heretic
secular
4. Belief in government run by religious leaders
theocracy
sect
innate
fuse
5. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
inextricable
suppressed
uniformity
6. Strength - energy
vigor
maritime
monopoly
heretic
7. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
evangelize
stratify
ethnocentric
textiles
8. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
abdicate
investiture
lineage
morality
9. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
heretic
adept
advent
subsequent
10. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
fealty
subsequent
theocracy
classical
11. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
prophesized
conscript
primogeniture
ethics
12. Control of a product or service by one company
morality
monopoly
sovereignty
eunuchs
13. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
primogeniture
decadent
matrilineal
subsequent
14. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
inextricable
venerate
precedent
inevitable
15. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
nationalism
papacy
monopoly
16. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
sedentary
positivism
lineage
puritanical
17. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
subordinate
investiture
precedent
pluralism
18. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
scorn
suppressed
inextricable
19. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
morality
pastoral
hinterland
patronage
20. A belief - principle - or teaching
morality
ethics
doctrine
maritime
21. The combination of parts to make a whole
sedentary
ecclesiastic
subordinate
synthesis
22. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
papacy
subordinate
matrilineal
uniformity
23. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
imperial
scorn
precedent
affiliation
24. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
pagan
monasticism
venerate
emulate
25. Belief in government run by religious leaders
theocracy
aristocracy
patrilineal
lineage
26. Control of a product or service by one company
stratify
concubine
monopoly
sect
27. Woven materials; cloth
deity
textiles
morality
sovereignty
28. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
congregate
investiture
imperial
inextricable
29. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
stratify
sect
concubine
concubine
30. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
primogeniture
ethnocentric
inevitable
congregate
31. To give up power
abdicate
despot
ethnocentric
matrilineal
32. Death rate
pagan
mortality
garrison
patronage
33. Mistress
concubine
sect
precedent
ethnocentric
34. 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
synthesis
monasticism
decadent
abdicate
35. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
precedent
investiture
stratify
36. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
adept
precedent
patrilineal
37. To give up power
indigenous
abdicate
positivism
papacy
38. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
patronage
puritanical
innate
pluralism
39. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
pagan
sect
ideology
imperial
40. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
inextricable
heretic
uniformity
adherents
41. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
autonomy
hierarchy
papacy
harem
42. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
mortality
matrilineal
patrilineal
43. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
fealty
prophesized
sovereignty
positivism
44. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
medieval
decadent
faction
status
45. Someone Who is drafted into military service
manifestation
aristocracy
piety
conscript
46. Independence; self-determination - political independence
patronage
autonomy
textiles
classical
47. Woven materials; cloth
heretic
textiles
fealty
faction
48. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
maritime
medieval
piety
uniformity
49. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
uniformity
investiture
adherents
theocracy
50. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
uniformity
suppressed
inextricable
ethnocentric