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Global Words You Should Know
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literacy
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
despot
adept
conscript
maritime
2. Someone Who is drafted into military service
indigenous
nationalism
conscript
venerate
3. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
lineage
precedent
emulate
maritime
4. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
hinterland
harem
suppressed
eunuchs
5. A belief - principle - or teaching
pluralism
piety
doctrine
inevitable
6. The act of being formally connected or joined
sovereignty
suppressed
affiliation
vigor
7. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
indigenous
hinterland
hastened
venerate
8. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
primogeniture
nationalism
sedentary
9. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
suppressed
hastened
deity
10. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
sedentary
emulate
morality
doctrine
11. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
affiliation
uniformity
hierarchy
papacy
12. Natural - inborn
prophesized
hastened
faction
innate
13. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
monopoly
autonomy
adherents
14. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
inextricable
nationalism
fealty
sect
15. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
emulate
fealty
ethics
ethnocentric
16. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
hastened
stratify
puritanical
maritime
17. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
ideology
stratify
fealty
status
18. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
sect
doctrine
nationalism
congregate
19. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
mystic
subsequent
scorn
patrilineal
20. Preach the gospel (to)
evangelize
lineage
adherents
fuse
21. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
adherents
evangelize
manifestation
22. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
inextricable
secular
harem
sedentary
23. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
conscript
subordinate
patronage
secular
24. The combination of parts to make a whole
adherents
synthesis
status
autonomy
25. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
classical
ethnocentric
maritime
26. Someone Who is drafted into military service
conscript
emulate
affiliation
autonomy
27. Philosophy
eradicate
ecclesiastic
positivism
manifestation
28. Woven materials; cloth
ethnocentric
textiles
stratify
hierarchy
29. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
evangelize
papacy
sect
secular
30. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
deity
puritanical
subsequent
pagan
31. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
pagan
monasticism
nationalism
hastened
32. To stop; delay - hinder
pagan
forestalling
positivism
congregate
33. Mistress
positivism
garrison
concubine
theocracy
34. Death rate
mortality
adherents
conscript
suppressed
35. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
ethics
scorn
manifestation
36. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
maritime
affiliation
primogeniture
concubine
37. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
puritanical
hinterland
garrison
concubine
38. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
emulate
piety
despot
adept
39. Natural - inborn
innate
fuse
morality
sovereignty
40. Preach the gospel (to)
evangelize
decadent
ethnocentric
fuse
41. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
ethics
decadent
imperial
sect
42. Woven materials; cloth
textiles
sedentary
hierarchy
affiliation
43. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
uniformity
inextricable
evangelize
morality
44. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
eradicate
pastoral
maritime
ecclesiastic
45. Mistress
matrilineal
concubine
morality
positivism
46. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
pagan
nationalism
pagan
47. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
medieval
mystic
ethnocentric
48. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
lineage
secular
heretic
fuse
49. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
harem
inextricable
paramount
50. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
morality
nationalism
ethics
inevitable