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TOEFL Vocab: Society
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1. To put into a many-leveled order - depending on importance or achievement
rigor
rite
artillery
rank
2. Strictness; difficult situations that come from following rules strictly
prejudiced
fortify
invasive
rigor
3. Stop
apex
diminish
cease
milieu
4. Restricted in outlook; relating to the local parish
assimilate
rank
domesticate
parochial
5. Large guns that shoot powerful shells; army units that handle such guns
domesticate
rigor
artillery
severely
6. In the middle of the hardest fighting or work
battle
domesticate
counter
in the trenches
7. Something that is carried; a source of stress or worry
saga
resist
suspend
burden
8. Loyalty
allegiance
implicitly
ritually
cremation
9. Traditional myths of a people transmitted orally
mobilize
folklore
rigor
saga
10. A system of imaginary lines running from north to south along the Earth's surface - where each line is numbered from 0 to 180o west or east
suspend
longitude
strategic
fortify
11. General environment or surroundings
relic
invasive
rigor
milieu
12. Highly educated
fossilize
invasive
chronologically
erudite
13. Something left from a long-ago culture - time period - or person
consequence
relic
paradigm
Orwellian
14. A ceremony meant to achieve a certain purpose
secular
rite
rank
battle
15. Make something smaller or weaker
diminish
deny
artillery
biased
16. To choose carefully among options
fossilize
resist
amend
discriminate
17. To find an original way to make an object or a plan
resist
devise
discriminate
domesticate
18. A takeover by force or continued effort
erudite
conquest
secular
artillery
19. In order according to time
burden
resist
chronologically
allegiance
20. An action that breaks a law or agreement; mistreatment of something that deserves respect
violation
rigor
saga
relic
21. To keep down by force; to weigh heavily on
oppress
vestige
hierarchy
chronologically
22. To become preserved in clay or stone or ash after death - so that a natural record is left of the original organism; to become rigid and stuck in old ways
paradigm
roster
counter
fossilize
23. A visible trace that something once existed
milieu
prejudiced
consequence
vestige
24. To consume and incorporate; to become similar
vestige
assimilate
saga
burden
25. Truly doing a job - even if not officially
deny
fossilize
implicitly
de facto
26. Clearly
paradigm
strategic
distinctly
cremation
27. A belief; a fanciful impulse
deny
burden
notion
prejudiced
28. A long story about important events long ago
saga
reconciliation
deny
notion
29. To fall down - usually because of weakness
reconciliation
ratio
burden
collapse
30. Frightening and overcontrolled by a government that interferes in nearly every aspect of personal life
assimilate
Orwellian
counter
devise
31. A pattern or model; a set of assumptions
amend
rank
strategic
paradigm
32. To act in opposition to; to offer in response
counter
burden
roster
folklore
33. To change for the better
artillery
amend
reconciliation
collapse
34. Strongest or most common
prevailing
biased
invasive
longitude
35. A result - often one much later in time than the cause
secular
deny
consequence
fossilize
36. A system of levels that places people high or low according to their importance
hierarchy
erudite
strategic
chronologically
37. To cause to stop for a period; to hang as to allow free movement
saga
mobilize
suspend
rank
38. To put members of a group into motion
collapse
mobilize
fossilize
curriculum
39. Causing to judge prematurely and unfairly
cease
strategic
prejudiced
prevailing
40. As part of a traditional ceremony or habit
domesticate
ritually
suspend
folklore
41. To make something (usually land) part of another unit
distinctly
domesticate
annex
rank
42. Worldly rather than spiritual; not related to religion
implicitly
secular
mobilize
deny
43. The courses of study offered by an educational institution
annex
paradigm
curriculum
invasive
44. The highest point
artillery
de facto
apex
core
45. Aggressively entering into someone else's territory
parochial
reconciliation
invasive
fossilize
46. Happen or exist at the same time
coincide
rigor
devise
mobilize
47. Without being stated; unquestioningly
roster
hierarchy
implicitly
biased
48. Leaning unfairly in one direction
mobilize
diminish
biased
resist
49. Say that something is not true
parochial
notion
severely
deny
50. Harshly; extremely
severely
amend
curriculum
saga