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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. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
pluralism
congregate
patronage
deity
2. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
lineage
fealty
autonomy
scorn
3. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
positivism
innate
mystic
autonomy
4. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
decadent
garrison
mystic
stratify
5. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
investiture
egalitarian
hierarchy
mystic
6. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
patrilineal
secular
uniformity
investiture
7. Having superior power and influence
prophesized
paramount
heretic
manifestation
8. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
mystic
ethics
fuse
scorn
9. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
medieval
subordinate
decadent
secular
10. Death rate
ecclesiastic
advent
mortality
ideology
11. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
ideology
papacy
concubine
suppressed
12. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
forestalling
evangelize
ethnocentric
13. Death rate
doctrine
inevitable
mortality
stratify
14. Mistress
eradicate
congregate
doctrine
concubine
15. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
forestalling
sect
inextricable
hastened
16. Mistress
egalitarian
abdicate
morality
concubine
17. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
innate
inevitable
abdicate
harem
18. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
patronage
nationalism
adherents
eradicate
19. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
innate
papacy
conscript
lineage
20. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
prophesized
primogeniture
precedent
hastened
21. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
eradicate
secular
evangelize
primogeniture
22. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
synthesis
vigor
scorn
uniformity
23. Woven materials; cloth
ethnocentric
egalitarian
nationalism
textiles
24. A remote and undeveloped area
papacy
hinterland
subsequent
heretic
25. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
garrison
monopoly
piety
classical
26. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
pastoral
mystic
pastoral
patronage
27. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
heretic
doctrine
congregate
28. Relating to or associated with an empire
stratify
imperial
maritime
faction
29. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
patrilineal
mortality
vigor
faction
30. Strength - energy
egalitarian
congregate
vigor
ethnocentric
31. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
pastoral
hastened
nationalism
despot
32. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
garrison
medieval
adept
investiture
33. Believers - followers
investiture
mystic
monopoly
adherents
34. Believers - followers
adherents
faction
nationalism
autonomy
35. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
inextricable
imperial
papacy
36. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
ecclesiastic
matrilineal
indigenous
ethics
37. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
egalitarian
affiliation
morality
patrilineal
38. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
synthesis
congregate
secular
status
39. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
vigor
eunuchs
adherents
status
40. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
suppressed
sedentary
papacy
egalitarian
41. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
paramount
textiles
pluralism
inevitable
42. Control of a product or service by one company
textiles
conscript
matrilineal
monopoly
43. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
innate
decadent
hierarchy
positivism
44. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
mystic
status
imperial
precedent
45. Strength - energy
garrison
vigor
morality
pluralism
46. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
positivism
patronage
venerate
pastoral
47. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
papacy
paramount
monopoly
hierarchy
48. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
despot
eradicate
sect
primogeniture
49. A god or goddess
eradicate
synthesis
monopoly
deity
50. To wipe out; to destroy
imperial
pluralism
nationalism
eradicate