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TOEFL Vocab: Society
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Frightening and overcontrolled by a government that interferes in nearly every aspect of personal life
Orwellian
assimilate
ritually
prejudiced
2. The act of burning the dead
ritually
hierarchy
cremation
rank
3. In order according to time
saga
chronologically
vestige
parochial
4. A system of levels that places people high or low according to their importance
prejudiced
vestige
conquest
hierarchy
5. To change for the better
amend
rigor
Orwellian
annex
6. The highest point
apex
rigor
burden
implicitly
7. Without being stated; unquestioningly
implicitly
resist
artillery
ritually
8. Something that is carried; a source of stress or worry
suspend
burden
oppress
severely
9. To fall down - usually because of weakness
coincide
annex
erudite
collapse
10. Large guns that shoot powerful shells; army units that handle such guns
ritually
rigor
artillery
curriculum
11. Coming back together peacefully after having been enemies
rite
severely
reconciliation
secular
12. A pattern or model; a set of assumptions
notion
suspend
secular
paradigm
13. Make something smaller or weaker
relic
vestige
fortify
diminish
14. Stop
fortify
cease
amend
consequence
15. Related to long-term plans for achieving a goal
vestige
conquest
strategic
longitude
16. To act in opposition to; to offer in response
biased
counter
fossilize
longitude
17. A belief; a fanciful impulse
fossilize
prejudiced
relic
notion
18. To consume and incorporate; to become similar
strategic
de facto
amend
assimilate
19. Something left from a long-ago culture - time period - or person
assimilate
relic
resist
invasive
20. To make something suitable for being in a home
mobilize
in the trenches
cremation
domesticate
21. An area or object at the center
artillery
reconciliation
prejudiced
core
22. Highly educated
erudite
saga
implicitly
severely
23. 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
saga
amend
vestige
fossilize
24. Clearly
distinctly
implicitly
de facto
fossilize
25. To fight against
violation
cremation
battle
Orwellian
26. To put members of a group into motion
biased
mobilize
rank
diminish
27. To keep down by force; to weigh heavily on
prejudiced
oppress
hierarchy
Orwellian
28. To refuse to give in to a strong force or desire
de facto
Orwellian
biased
resist
29. Traditional myths of a people transmitted orally
folklore
deny
devise
rigor
30. The relationship of one number or amount to another
ratio
folklore
apex
relic
31. Aggressively entering into someone else's territory
implicitly
invasive
distinctly
ratio
32. To cause to stop for a period; to hang as to allow free movement
secular
rank
suspend
conquest
33. A visible trace that something once existed
consequence
distinctly
notion
vestige
34. Loyalty
allegiance
annex
coincide
diminish
35. Happen or exist at the same time
coincide
core
strategic
reconciliation
36. A ceremony meant to achieve a certain purpose
artillery
distinctly
rigor
rite
37. General environment or surroundings
milieu
devise
oppress
erudite
38. A result - often one much later in time than the cause
in the trenches
biased
fossilize
consequence
39. To strengthen
fortify
roster
artillery
ratio
40. A list - especially of names
rigor
notion
roster
strategic
41. 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
implicitly
longitude
devise
parochial
42. To choose carefully among options
discriminate
apex
curriculum
parochial
43. Truly doing a job - even if not officially
artillery
de facto
chronologically
oppress
44. Worldly rather than spiritual; not related to religion
curriculum
domesticate
secular
cease
45. A takeover by force or continued effort
conquest
fortify
rite
resist
46. To put into a many-leveled order - depending on importance or achievement
amend
deny
ratio
rank
47. In the middle of the hardest fighting or work
secular
in the trenches
domesticate
devise
48. To make something (usually land) part of another unit
annex
battle
diminish
allegiance
49. Strongest or most common
domesticate
devise
prevailing
chronologically
50. The courses of study offered by an educational institution
annex
rite
curriculum
coincide