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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. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
affiliation
autonomy
medieval
inevitable
2. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
doctrine
scorn
patronage
matrilineal
3. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
deity
decadent
morality
venerate
4. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
abdicate
harem
concubine
conscript
5. To give up power
uniformity
egalitarian
abdicate
sovereignty
6. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
classical
scorn
aristocracy
synthesis
7. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
imperial
nationalism
adept
advent
8. Believers - followers
patrilineal
precedent
adherents
mortality
9. Death rate
adherents
mortality
manifestation
garrison
10. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
lineage
patronage
pluralism
garrison
11. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
puritanical
pluralism
medieval
egalitarian
12. A remote and undeveloped area
autonomy
inevitable
hinterland
despot
13. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
garrison
hierarchy
pastoral
decadent
14. Incapable of being solved or untangled
investiture
inextricable
inevitable
prophesized
15. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
sovereignty
advent
manifestation
pastoral
16. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
lineage
status
innate
pastoral
17. A god or goddess
affiliation
sovereignty
harem
deity
18. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
secular
sedentary
egalitarian
emulate
19. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
pagan
sovereignty
innate
lineage
20. Predicted; foretold
patrilineal
status
prophesized
ethics
21. Belief in government run by religious leaders
doctrine
mortality
classical
theocracy
22. Woven materials; cloth
textiles
lineage
eradicate
theocracy
23. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
garrison
manifestation
uniformity
prophesized
24. Philosophy
positivism
nationalism
manifestation
uniformity
25. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
hastened
papacy
precedent
mystic
26. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
sovereignty
medieval
emulate
subsequent
27. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
eunuchs
inevitable
advent
puritanical
28. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
adherents
piety
medieval
nationalism
29. A remote and undeveloped area
hinterland
pagan
affiliation
adept
30. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
sovereignty
garrison
monopoly
31. Death rate
mortality
matrilineal
investiture
indigenous
32. Relating to or associated with an empire
sedentary
imperial
status
subordinate
33. Incapable of being solved or untangled
heretic
ethnocentric
morality
inextricable
34. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
stratify
sovereignty
conscript
ideology
35. A belief - principle - or teaching
vigor
doctrine
patrilineal
scorn
36. A person who believes in the equality of all people
doctrine
imperial
egalitarian
eradicate
37. Predicted; foretold
puritanical
affiliation
monopoly
prophesized
38. To wipe out; to destroy
eradicate
medieval
stratify
innate
39. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
autonomy
piety
scorn
40. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
ethics
heretic
maritime
investiture
41. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
positivism
suppressed
hierarchy
concubine
42. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
precedent
despot
garrison
advent
43. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
advent
decadent
heretic
papacy
44. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
nationalism
puritanical
adept
papacy
45. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
manifestation
primogeniture
patrilineal
46. The act of being formally connected or joined
eradicate
affiliation
hinterland
suppressed
47. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
vigor
uniformity
autonomy
forestalling
48. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
harem
adept
primogeniture
affiliation
49. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
uniformity
sedentary
paramount
investiture
50. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
indigenous
positivism
hastened