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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. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
innate
garrison
hastened
scorn
2. Code of morality
despot
congregate
ethics
pluralism
3. Independence; self-determination - political independence
eunuchs
autonomy
synthesis
fealty
4. 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
innate
scorn
monasticism
5. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
faction
hierarchy
morality
precedent
6. To stop; delay - hinder
forestalling
hierarchy
fealty
inevitable
7. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
hierarchy
monasticism
ethics
faction
8. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eunuchs
garrison
adherents
status
9. Someone Who is drafted into military service
lineage
conscript
forestalling
ethics
10. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
monopoly
hastened
textiles
classical
11. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
eunuchs
sedentary
classical
scorn
12. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
abdicate
sect
despot
maritime
13. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
doctrine
suppressed
piety
14. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
prophesized
congregate
affiliation
15. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
prophesized
decadent
evangelize
theocracy
16. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
lineage
ethics
inevitable
abdicate
17. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
fuse
abdicate
scorn
pluralism
18. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
advent
concubine
garrison
secular
19. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
ideology
suppressed
ethics
uniformity
20. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
hinterland
classical
pluralism
morality
21. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
synthesis
pluralism
maritime
despot
22. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
autonomy
deity
medieval
suppressed
23. Mistress
egalitarian
concubine
faction
adherents
24. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
primogeniture
scorn
medieval
patrilineal
25. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
puritanical
secular
suppressed
subordinate
26. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
scorn
synthesis
investiture
27. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
fealty
positivism
emulate
primogeniture
28. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
fealty
matrilineal
morality
sovereignty
29. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
nationalism
evangelize
vigor
venerate
30. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
evangelize
ethics
medieval
31. Having superior power and influence
suppressed
paramount
patrilineal
congregate
32. Incapable of being solved or untangled
emulate
ecclesiastic
adherents
inextricable
33. Natural - inborn
inevitable
deity
innate
autonomy
34. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
uniformity
mortality
fealty
vigor
35. Devotion and reverence to God
subsequent
autonomy
scorn
piety
36. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
aristocracy
harem
sovereignty
matrilineal
37. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
aristocracy
garrison
fealty
synthesis
38. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
theocracy
textiles
adept
lineage
39. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
medieval
theocracy
ethnocentric
nationalism
40. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
aristocracy
abdicate
prophesized
ethics
41. Death rate
evangelize
uniformity
mortality
abdicate
42. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
subordinate
mystic
hierarchy
harem
43. Control of a product or service by one company
emulate
monopoly
fuse
textiles
44. A god or goddess
pastoral
eunuchs
egalitarian
deity
45. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
pluralism
forestalling
synthesis
46. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
textiles
hierarchy
ethics
47. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
eradicate
puritanical
faction
venerate
48. To wipe out; to destroy
morality
concubine
eradicate
primogeniture
49. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
pastoral
adept
nationalism
garrison
50. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
autonomy
investiture
puritanical
precedent