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Global Words You Should Know
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Subjects
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literacy
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
subsequent
vigor
aristocracy
adept
2. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
ethics
imperial
doctrine
3. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
pastoral
advent
mystic
hierarchy
4. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
pluralism
theocracy
evangelize
ideology
5. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
concubine
monasticism
hierarchy
sedentary
6. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
patrilineal
secular
ethnocentric
morality
7. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
deity
ecclesiastic
indigenous
lineage
8. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
paramount
emulate
scorn
piety
9. Woven materials; cloth
adept
theocracy
faction
textiles
10. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
vigor
garrison
despot
pluralism
11. Natural - inborn
prophesized
affiliation
maritime
innate
12. Philosophy
hastened
abdicate
mortality
positivism
13. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
hastened
adherents
stratify
investiture
14. Someone Who is drafted into military service
secular
conscript
congregate
faction
15. To give up power
patronage
subsequent
decadent
abdicate
16. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
egalitarian
eunuchs
maritime
inevitable
17. A remote and undeveloped area
abdicate
ethnocentric
garrison
hinterland
18. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
hinterland
stratify
concubine
19. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
uniformity
autonomy
primogeniture
classical
20. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
stratify
morality
paramount
scorn
21. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
subsequent
subordinate
suppressed
22. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
sovereignty
adept
aristocracy
23. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
subordinate
nationalism
scorn
manifestation
24. Incapable of being solved or untangled
fuse
inextricable
sect
eradicate
25. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
precedent
despot
status
medieval
26. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
affiliation
subordinate
venerate
27. Predicted; foretold
hastened
monopoly
aristocracy
prophesized
28. Belief in government run by religious leaders
investiture
morality
theocracy
morality
29. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
textiles
stratify
doctrine
primogeniture
30. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
concubine
affiliation
positivism
uniformity
31. To wipe out; to destroy
innate
primogeniture
inextricable
eradicate
32. Natural - inborn
innate
fuse
egalitarian
affiliation
33. A belief - principle - or teaching
paramount
doctrine
ideology
decadent
34. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
subordinate
deity
fealty
hierarchy
35. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
adherents
monasticism
patronage
suppressed
36. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
inevitable
patrilineal
nationalism
adherents
37. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
indigenous
matrilineal
advent
eradicate
38. Preach the gospel (to)
despot
inevitable
eunuchs
evangelize
39. Independence; self-determination - political independence
aristocracy
pluralism
autonomy
conscript
40. To wipe out; to destroy
manifestation
primogeniture
vigor
eradicate
41. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
indigenous
nationalism
congregate
eradicate
42. Mistress
despot
inevitable
uniformity
concubine
43. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
status
classical
heretic
pagan
44. Having superior power and influence
suppressed
venerate
harem
paramount
45. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
fealty
lineage
inextricable
nationalism
46. Death rate
prophesized
congregate
fuse
mortality
47. Incapable of being solved or untangled
abdicate
indigenous
inextricable
piety
48. Code of morality
hinterland
fealty
morality
ethics
49. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
manifestation
doctrine
suppressed
50. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
deity
fealty
despot
pluralism