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Global Words You Should Know
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Someone Who is drafted into military service
pagan
papacy
matrilineal
conscript
2. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
medieval
hastened
forestalling
3. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
concubine
eunuchs
subsequent
imperial
4. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
morality
monopoly
manifestation
eunuchs
5. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
hinterland
monasticism
nationalism
concubine
6. To give up power
pluralism
abdicate
monasticism
fealty
7. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
puritanical
ideology
monopoly
8. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
conscript
sedentary
primogeniture
stratify
9. Strength - energy
autonomy
deity
vigor
eunuchs
10. Belief in government run by religious leaders
fealty
theocracy
patronage
ecclesiastic
11. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
ethics
adept
sect
monasticism
12. Mistress
concubine
deity
abdicate
positivism
13. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
textiles
hastened
abdicate
pastoral
14. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
ideology
stratify
status
investiture
15. 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
lineage
monasticism
status
indigenous
16. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
pagan
heretic
medieval
secular
17. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
stratify
doctrine
garrison
scorn
18. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
mystic
harem
stratify
synthesis
19. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
patrilineal
conscript
vigor
despot
20. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
stratify
advent
vigor
investiture
21. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
status
emulate
patrilineal
despot
22. Preach the gospel (to)
positivism
fuse
doctrine
evangelize
23. A belief - principle - or teaching
pluralism
adherents
doctrine
congregate
24. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
subsequent
pastoral
despot
investiture
25. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
suppressed
venerate
status
26. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
faction
adept
primogeniture
textiles
27. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
synthesis
mortality
deity
28. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
concubine
subsequent
despot
innate
29. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
emulate
ethnocentric
medieval
scorn
30. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
theocracy
primogeniture
matrilineal
ethnocentric
31. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
ideology
sedentary
hierarchy
positivism
32. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
puritanical
sovereignty
medieval
sect
33. Belief in government run by religious leaders
puritanical
ideology
stratify
theocracy
34. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
ethnocentric
uniformity
venerate
congregate
35. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
hastened
subordinate
synthesis
heretic
36. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
autonomy
puritanical
secular
hastened
37. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
inevitable
hierarchy
pastoral
lineage
38. Mistress
monasticism
inevitable
nationalism
concubine
39. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
decadent
textiles
morality
40. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
synthesis
vigor
ethnocentric
41. Predicted; foretold
mortality
prophesized
faction
congregate
42. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
classical
textiles
maritime
positivism
43. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
secular
patrilineal
conscript
precedent
44. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
suppressed
inextricable
prophesized
lineage
45. Native to a certain area
adherents
indigenous
maritime
decadent
46. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
inevitable
subordinate
lineage
sovereignty
47. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
piety
monasticism
fealty
48. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
suppressed
morality
forestalling
aristocracy
49. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
papacy
ecclesiastic
theocracy
manifestation
50. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
secular
pagan
nationalism
advent