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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
affiliation
sedentary
prophesized
adherents
2. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
hierarchy
advent
adherents
positivism
3. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
ethics
nationalism
faction
inevitable
4. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
adept
pluralism
hierarchy
pastoral
5. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
conscript
despot
patrilineal
subsequent
6. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
pluralism
paramount
autonomy
despot
7. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
advent
despot
congregate
8. Death rate
lineage
indigenous
theocracy
mortality
9. A person who believes in the equality of all people
egalitarian
aristocracy
fealty
inextricable
10. A belief - principle - or teaching
harem
sect
mortality
doctrine
11. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
patronage
stratify
subsequent
fuse
12. Natural - inborn
sovereignty
innate
sedentary
ethics
13. To stop; delay - hinder
forestalling
hinterland
inevitable
deity
14. Native to a certain area
papacy
indigenous
egalitarian
primogeniture
15. Believers - followers
sovereignty
prophesized
adherents
autonomy
16. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
mortality
sedentary
suppressed
ideology
17. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
scorn
piety
despot
adept
18. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
manifestation
nationalism
autonomy
heretic
19. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
stratify
maritime
sovereignty
piety
20. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
innate
investiture
patrilineal
21. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
imperial
deity
secular
venerate
22. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
adherents
patronage
ecclesiastic
paramount
23. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
lineage
suppressed
garrison
deity
24. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
papacy
despot
pagan
prophesized
25. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
subsequent
manifestation
doctrine
26. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
vigor
nationalism
despot
status
27. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
theocracy
sovereignty
subordinate
egalitarian
28. Woven materials; cloth
abdicate
heretic
eradicate
textiles
29. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
hierarchy
decadent
subsequent
garrison
30. 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
patrilineal
monasticism
forestalling
monopoly
31. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
sovereignty
mystic
imperial
32. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
primogeniture
synthesis
ethics
hierarchy
33. Independence; self-determination - political independence
faction
autonomy
piety
secular
34. A god or goddess
garrison
deity
classical
aristocracy
35. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
classical
status
morality
papacy
36. Someone who is drafted into military service
conscript
eradicate
monopoly
eunuchs
37. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
imperial
abdicate
egalitarian
congregate
38. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
maritime
garrison
uniformity
eunuchs
39. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
advent
pagan
patronage
heretic
40. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
ideology
garrison
indigenous
41. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
primogeniture
venerate
ethnocentric
emulate
42. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
pluralism
fealty
suppressed
prophesized
43. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
eunuchs
matrilineal
adept
piety
44. Philosophy
conscript
positivism
ideology
autonomy
45. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
subordinate
decadent
affiliation
garrison
46. Strength - energy
vigor
ethnocentric
sect
primogeniture
47. The act of being formally connected or joined
faction
affiliation
vigor
pastoral
48. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
pastoral
aristocracy
eunuchs
sedentary
49. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
morality
autonomy
deity
emulate
50. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
aristocracy
precedent
uniformity
fuse