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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. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
hierarchy
ecclesiastic
patronage
morality
2. Natural - inborn
textiles
innate
synthesis
concubine
3. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
inextricable
stratify
harem
hinterland
4. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
investiture
stratify
faction
hastened
5. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
uniformity
morality
ethics
secular
6. A god or goddess
nationalism
suppressed
adept
deity
7. To stop; delay - hinder
garrison
investiture
harem
forestalling
8. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
inevitable
indigenous
positivism
sovereignty
9. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
textiles
sovereignty
eunuchs
10. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
faction
doctrine
precedent
ethnocentric
11. Death rate
manifestation
ecclesiastic
affiliation
mortality
12. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
adept
pastoral
forestalling
harem
13. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
pagan
vigor
positivism
14. Incapable of being solved or untangled
ecclesiastic
adept
subordinate
inextricable
15. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
pastoral
status
abdicate
fealty
16. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
despot
heretic
doctrine
positivism
17. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
despot
garrison
prophesized
forestalling
18. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
ecclesiastic
hastened
conscript
ethnocentric
19. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
positivism
investiture
paramount
patrilineal
20. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
affiliation
autonomy
evangelize
despot
21. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
uniformity
hinterland
adept
22. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
subsequent
piety
classical
fuse
23. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
affiliation
forestalling
inevitable
eunuchs
24. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
monopoly
manifestation
advent
precedent
25. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
doctrine
evangelize
hastened
conscript
26. Someone Who is drafted into military service
conscript
primogeniture
patrilineal
morality
27. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
prophesized
deity
venerate
imperial
28. Believers - followers
prophesized
inevitable
autonomy
adherents
29. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
monopoly
suppressed
adherents
prophesized
30. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
fuse
garrison
emulate
decadent
31. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
classical
prophesized
vigor
32. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
aristocracy
uniformity
medieval
decadent
33. Relating to or associated with an empire
conscript
synthesis
imperial
inevitable
34. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
ecclesiastic
inextricable
prophesized
35. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
suppressed
morality
despot
pluralism
36. Mistress
concubine
manifestation
paramount
emulate
37. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
inextricable
precedent
lineage
textiles
38. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
eunuchs
primogeniture
patronage
congregate
39. Believers - followers
scorn
medieval
inextricable
adherents
40. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
puritanical
primogeniture
eunuchs
status
41. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
eunuchs
ethnocentric
indigenous
papacy
42. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
pluralism
papacy
inextricable
primogeniture
43. The combination of parts to make a whole
precedent
sedentary
synthesis
concubine
44. Belief in government run by religious leaders
secular
theocracy
fealty
despot
45. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
prophesized
sect
congregate
heretic
46. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
eunuchs
manifestation
maritime
harem
47. 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
hastened
matrilineal
papacy
48. Philosophy
forestalling
doctrine
heretic
positivism
49. The act of being formally connected or joined
indigenous
affiliation
venerate
theocracy
50. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
morality
investiture
medieval
deity