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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. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
theocracy
garrison
subordinate
matrilineal
2. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
hierarchy
textiles
theocracy
investiture
3. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
sect
autonomy
conscript
4. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
primogeniture
matrilineal
inevitable
eradicate
5. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
fealty
positivism
garrison
indigenous
6. Believers - followers
adherents
patrilineal
ethics
ecclesiastic
7. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
stratify
congregate
sect
venerate
8. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
matrilineal
pastoral
investiture
eradicate
9. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
decadent
aristocracy
scorn
despot
10. Belief in government run by religious leaders
prophesized
sedentary
theocracy
adept
11. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
vigor
secular
fealty
patronage
12. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
evangelize
sedentary
uniformity
indigenous
13. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
mystic
patrilineal
medieval
paramount
14. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
primogeniture
aristocracy
mystic
classical
15. A belief - principle - or teaching
papacy
doctrine
pastoral
textiles
16. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
papacy
affiliation
ethnocentric
17. Predicted; foretold
innate
primogeniture
theocracy
prophesized
18. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
textiles
forestalling
advent
medieval
19. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
primogeniture
secular
stratify
precedent
20. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
subordinate
harem
ecclesiastic
vigor
21. The combination of parts to make a whole
conscript
vigor
synthesis
puritanical
22. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
decadent
mystic
hastened
sect
23. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
emulate
nationalism
innate
hastened
24. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
affiliation
sovereignty
fealty
synthesis
25. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
inevitable
synthesis
investiture
scorn
26. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
mystic
pluralism
garrison
27. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
scorn
positivism
venerate
stratify
28. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
hinterland
pagan
forestalling
positivism
29. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
subsequent
morality
primogeniture
subordinate
30. Predicted; foretold
subsequent
adherents
prophesized
forestalling
31. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
monopoly
concubine
pastoral
32. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
puritanical
sovereignty
ethnocentric
33. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
patrilineal
matrilineal
inevitable
eradicate
34. Strength - energy
scorn
primogeniture
vigor
puritanical
35. A person who believes in the equality of all people
stratify
patrilineal
egalitarian
patrilineal
36. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
affiliation
autonomy
emulate
pluralism
37. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
ethics
congregate
innate
monopoly
38. Native to a certain area
indigenous
stratify
monasticism
autonomy
39. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
ecclesiastic
concubine
subordinate
decadent
40. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
adept
manifestation
faction
patrilineal
41. Someone Who is drafted into military service
eradicate
conscript
monasticism
heretic
42. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
sovereignty
suppressed
pagan
abdicate
43. Woven materials; cloth
sect
textiles
piety
faction
44. The act of being formally connected or joined
emulate
ethics
egalitarian
affiliation
45. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
aristocracy
ecclesiastic
lineage
monasticism
46. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
subordinate
sect
doctrine
fuse
47. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
ecclesiastic
ethnocentric
manifestation
textiles
48. 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
subsequent
imperial
precedent
49. To give up power
abdicate
innate
paramount
textiles
50. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
sovereignty
maritime
lineage
scorn