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Global Words You Should Know
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literacy
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
secular
forestalling
hastened
ethnocentric
2. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
paramount
fealty
ethics
hierarchy
3. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
garrison
ethics
despot
indigenous
4. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
hierarchy
adherents
garrison
ecclesiastic
5. Predicted; foretold
ideology
advent
prophesized
aristocracy
6. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
heretic
faction
harem
fuse
7. 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
garrison
monasticism
advent
concubine
8. Relating to or associated with an empire
imperial
puritanical
harem
stratify
9. Independence; self-determination - political independence
pagan
ethnocentric
autonomy
manifestation
10. Control of a product or service by one company
monopoly
monasticism
aristocracy
imperial
11. Strength - energy
lineage
vigor
pluralism
prophesized
12. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
suppressed
piety
pastoral
nationalism
13. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
manifestation
uniformity
imperial
deity
14. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
decadent
scorn
inextricable
despot
15. Native to a certain area
suppressed
vigor
ideology
indigenous
16. Natural - inborn
innate
adherents
textiles
conscript
17. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
forestalling
sect
innate
sedentary
18. To give up power
venerate
abdicate
egalitarian
innate
19. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
concubine
subsequent
monopoly
heretic
20. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
subsequent
primogeniture
inextricable
ethics
21. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hierarchy
egalitarian
despot
paramount
22. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
mortality
puritanical
emulate
subsequent
23. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
stratify
aristocracy
positivism
inextricable
24. Preach the gospel (to)
hinterland
evangelize
concubine
egalitarian
25. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
morality
eradicate
matrilineal
adept
26. A remote and undeveloped area
ethics
hinterland
puritanical
autonomy
27. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
stratify
mystic
heretic
28. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
positivism
sedentary
precedent
primogeniture
29. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
pagan
mortality
despot
matrilineal
30. A god or goddess
papacy
deity
eunuchs
mortality
31. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
uniformity
imperial
medieval
ideology
32. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
medieval
positivism
inextricable
33. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
decadent
classical
harem
fuse
34. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
pluralism
vigor
innate
ethnocentric
35. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
subordinate
ecclesiastic
harem
sovereignty
36. Devotion and reverence to God
harem
indigenous
doctrine
piety
37. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
uniformity
investiture
patronage
adherents
38. Code of morality
classical
ethics
hinterland
maritime
39. Having superior power and influence
paramount
pluralism
autonomy
nationalism
40. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
paramount
investiture
fealty
41. Woven materials; cloth
mortality
textiles
ethics
concubine
42. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
positivism
uniformity
status
investiture
43. Natural - inborn
innate
doctrine
scorn
fuse
44. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
hinterland
venerate
aristocracy
lineage
45. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
vigor
doctrine
pagan
pluralism
46. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
ethnocentric
doctrine
decadent
emulate
47. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
adherents
deity
venerate
indigenous
48. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
ethnocentric
conscript
hierarchy
49. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
positivism
congregate
autonomy
medieval
50. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
synthesis
harem
uniformity
ethics