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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. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
scorn
nationalism
fealty
morality
2. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
paramount
ethnocentric
nationalism
textiles
3. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
faction
investiture
pastoral
hastened
4. A person who believes in the equality of all people
eradicate
egalitarian
subsequent
ecclesiastic
5. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
ethics
pluralism
monopoly
6. Predicted; foretold
sedentary
congregate
paramount
prophesized
7. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
egalitarian
hierarchy
matrilineal
inevitable
8. Believers - followers
adherents
subsequent
pagan
manifestation
9. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
congregate
sect
morality
pastoral
10. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
eunuchs
congregate
concubine
aristocracy
11. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
concubine
decadent
ethnocentric
morality
12. The act of being formally connected or joined
innate
affiliation
adherents
conscript
13. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
uniformity
venerate
subsequent
suppressed
14. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
abdicate
sedentary
precedent
despot
15. Someone Who is drafted into military service
uniformity
fealty
conscript
monasticism
16. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
garrison
morality
doctrine
ecclesiastic
17. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
eunuchs
synthesis
mystic
ecclesiastic
18. To wipe out; to destroy
morality
adept
sovereignty
eradicate
19. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
adept
fuse
scorn
20. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
paramount
morality
manifestation
21. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
ethnocentric
mortality
investiture
faction
22. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
mortality
emulate
congregate
adept
23. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
conscript
venerate
synthesis
faction
24. Code of morality
ethics
secular
synthesis
vigor
25. Philosophy
prophesized
piety
positivism
aristocracy
26. Philosophy
indigenous
positivism
decadent
precedent
27. Native to a certain area
indigenous
maritime
garrison
maritime
28. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
sect
doctrine
eunuchs
precedent
29. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
matrilineal
abdicate
evangelize
inevitable
30. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
garrison
emulate
harem
fealty
31. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
congregate
autonomy
hierarchy
decadent
32. Predicted; foretold
doctrine
fuse
adherents
prophesized
33. Natural - inborn
monopoly
mortality
autonomy
innate
34. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
stratify
despot
scorn
advent
35. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
maritime
egalitarian
matrilineal
uniformity
36. Natural - inborn
autonomy
harem
innate
pluralism
37. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
ecclesiastic
congregate
fuse
concubine
38. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
patrilineal
pluralism
doctrine
morality
39. Preach the gospel (to)
eunuchs
fuse
evangelize
matrilineal
40. 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
ideology
ethnocentric
prophesized
monasticism
41. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
congregate
suppressed
nationalism
pluralism
42. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
hierarchy
status
piety
matrilineal
43. A remote and undeveloped area
faction
heretic
hinterland
prophesized
44. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
hinterland
textiles
despot
precedent
45. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
secular
eunuchs
sovereignty
patronage
46. Having superior power and influence
mortality
despot
paramount
doctrine
47. Code of morality
doctrine
ethics
mystic
hastened
48. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
adept
pagan
scorn
prophesized
49. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
investiture
morality
suppressed
eradicate
50. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
uniformity
sect
heretic
venerate