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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
affiliation
subordinate
maritime
hinterland
2. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
investiture
monopoly
suppressed
status
3. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
hinterland
congregate
papacy
doctrine
4. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
mortality
heretic
ideology
puritanical
5. Independence; self-determination - political independence
autonomy
doctrine
venerate
hinterland
6. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
inevitable
emulate
lineage
7. A god or goddess
pastoral
innate
sedentary
deity
8. Death rate
garrison
mortality
classical
matrilineal
9. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
primogeniture
ecclesiastic
conscript
scorn
10. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
puritanical
faction
inevitable
pluralism
11. 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
deity
status
patronage
monasticism
12. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
secular
investiture
ethnocentric
stratify
13. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
nationalism
prophesized
monopoly
innate
14. The act of being formally connected or joined
harem
ecclesiastic
affiliation
stratify
15. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
advent
decadent
suppressed
egalitarian
16. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
emulate
despot
morality
positivism
17. Someone who is drafted into military service
conscript
piety
lineage
affiliation
18. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
heretic
secular
piety
sedentary
19. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
status
inextricable
secular
suppressed
20. A person who believes in the equality of all people
sedentary
eunuchs
egalitarian
medieval
21. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
ideology
medieval
ethnocentric
pagan
22. Believers - followers
inextricable
morality
adherents
ethics
23. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
subsequent
pastoral
aristocracy
abdicate
24. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
despot
patronage
fuse
hastened
25. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eunuchs
vigor
piety
puritanical
26. Natural - inborn
forestalling
patrilineal
innate
monopoly
27. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
scorn
eradicate
faction
pluralism
28. To give up power
conscript
pluralism
evangelize
abdicate
29. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
patrilineal
faction
morality
decadent
30. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
sect
suppressed
monopoly
matrilineal
31. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
morality
emulate
patronage
garrison
32. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
advent
garrison
synthesis
monasticism
33. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hierarchy
sect
forestalling
monopoly
34. Incapable of being solved or untangled
investiture
heretic
inextricable
nationalism
35. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
maritime
inextricable
primogeniture
36. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
investiture
patrilineal
morality
paramount
37. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
pluralism
primogeniture
harem
stratify
38. A remote and undeveloped area
ethnocentric
morality
papacy
hinterland
39. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
medieval
evangelize
mystic
morality
40. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
secular
monopoly
morality
41. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
pagan
indigenous
lineage
doctrine
42. Mistress
evangelize
ideology
concubine
adherents
43. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
precedent
hinterland
decadent
subordinate
44. Predicted; foretold
papacy
uniformity
positivism
prophesized
45. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
abdicate
hastened
concubine
46. Relating to or associated with an empire
synthesis
adherents
garrison
imperial
47. Philosophy
positivism
aristocracy
precedent
mortality
48. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
emulate
ecclesiastic
sect
indigenous
49. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
stratify
sect
sovereignty
patrilineal
50. Having superior power and influence
sovereignty
paramount
inevitable
conscript