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Global Words You Should Know
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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. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
congregate
medieval
maritime
2. A belief - principle - or teaching
monopoly
ethics
doctrine
morality
3. Philosophy
paramount
pagan
positivism
hastened
4. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
egalitarian
investiture
congregate
pagan
5. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
decadent
stratify
eradicate
hierarchy
6. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
ethnocentric
monopoly
conscript
harem
7. Independence; self-determination - political independence
eradicate
autonomy
pagan
innate
8. Native to a certain area
indigenous
textiles
affiliation
hastened
9. Someone Who is drafted into military service
ethics
conscript
ethnocentric
precedent
10. Someone Who is drafted into military service
pastoral
indigenous
conscript
sect
11. Belief in government run by religious leaders
theocracy
garrison
subsequent
imperial
12. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
egalitarian
prophesized
paramount
13. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
abdicate
patrilineal
harem
synthesis
14. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
monopoly
faction
sect
15. Mistress
positivism
classical
concubine
pagan
16. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
forestalling
decadent
faction
nationalism
17. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
status
prophesized
mortality
precedent
18. Having superior power and influence
venerate
paramount
doctrine
eunuchs
19. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
aristocracy
medieval
heretic
pastoral
20. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
manifestation
matrilineal
morality
puritanical
21. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
mystic
decadent
classical
eradicate
22. Incapable of being solved or untangled
fealty
inextricable
hinterland
garrison
23. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
harem
pluralism
maritime
inevitable
24. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
subsequent
autonomy
morality
status
25. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
theocracy
monopoly
classical
emulate
26. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
subsequent
fuse
morality
primogeniture
27. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
sedentary
adept
papacy
deity
28. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
hastened
deity
conscript
innate
29. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
mystic
hinterland
adherents
uniformity
30. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
heretic
maritime
mortality
31. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
suppressed
despot
puritanical
emulate
32. Predicted; foretold
concubine
advent
prophesized
monasticism
33. 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
monasticism
medieval
classical
paramount
34. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
morality
sedentary
innate
secular
35. The act of being formally connected or joined
adherents
affiliation
theocracy
papacy
36. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
despot
imperial
status
papacy
37. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
vigor
pagan
monopoly
manifestation
38. Code of morality
abdicate
indigenous
textiles
ethics
39. Preach the gospel (to)
primogeniture
imperial
evangelize
eunuchs
40. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
primogeniture
nationalism
hastened
monasticism
41. Strength - energy
suppressed
morality
vigor
pastoral
42. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
deity
vigor
ideology
emulate
43. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
status
papacy
nationalism
ideology
44. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
mystic
congregate
paramount
scorn
45. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
ideology
scorn
egalitarian
papacy
46. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
pagan
despot
emulate
theocracy
47. A remote and undeveloped area
status
adherents
manifestation
hinterland
48. Belief in government run by religious leaders
decadent
fuse
pastoral
theocracy
49. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
matrilineal
advent
mortality
ecclesiastic
50. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
fealty
faction
suppressed
hastened