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Global Words You Should Know
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Subjects
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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
classical
venerate
aristocracy
patronage
2. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
investiture
sovereignty
imperial
morality
3. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
sect
sedentary
puritanical
inevitable
4. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
faction
piety
medieval
egalitarian
5. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
evangelize
sect
hierarchy
ideology
6. Independence; self-determination - political independence
hastened
innate
pastoral
autonomy
7. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
hastened
subordinate
adherents
eradicate
8. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
indigenous
imperial
conscript
9. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
manifestation
garrison
harem
investiture
10. Believers - followers
faction
mystic
puritanical
adherents
11. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
monasticism
aristocracy
venerate
scorn
12. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
primogeniture
sedentary
abdicate
pastoral
13. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
eradicate
sect
inevitable
mystic
14. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
papacy
scorn
sovereignty
inevitable
15. To stop; delay - hinder
abdicate
primogeniture
forestalling
uniformity
16. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
investiture
secular
positivism
scorn
17. A remote and undeveloped area
sedentary
pagan
hinterland
scorn
18. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
abdicate
monasticism
fuse
conscript
19. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
egalitarian
harem
scorn
20. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
positivism
fealty
secular
innate
21. Someone Who is drafted into military service
evangelize
heretic
conscript
ethics
22. 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
conscript
monasticism
affiliation
ethics
23. Having superior power and influence
paramount
congregate
puritanical
garrison
24. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
theocracy
papacy
piety
25. Mistress
mystic
concubine
synthesis
hastened
26. Belief in government run by religious leaders
theocracy
monasticism
sedentary
textiles
27. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
vigor
eradicate
despot
uniformity
28. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
sedentary
hinterland
maritime
manifestation
29. Death rate
mortality
congregate
piety
puritanical
30. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
hastened
sedentary
paramount
suppressed
31. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
sect
congregate
autonomy
manifestation
32. Strength - energy
vigor
inevitable
decadent
paramount
33. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
mortality
patrilineal
uniformity
indigenous
34. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
hinterland
medieval
scorn
sect
35. To stop; delay - hinder
puritanical
forestalling
theocracy
monopoly
36. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
garrison
innate
affiliation
patrilineal
37. Strength - energy
medieval
sovereignty
vigor
conscript
38. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
deity
inevitable
adherents
faction
39. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
subsequent
imperial
mortality
textiles
40. Someone Who is drafted into military service
forestalling
doctrine
conscript
prophesized
41. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
mystic
emulate
faction
subordinate
42. A god or goddess
deity
maritime
inevitable
scorn
43. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
heretic
fuse
morality
advent
44. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
puritanical
forestalling
pluralism
prophesized
45. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
concubine
patrilineal
harem
manifestation
46. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
faction
theocracy
abdicate
deity
47. Woven materials; cloth
ethics
eunuchs
textiles
uniformity
48. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
harem
pastoral
sovereignty
matrilineal
49. To give up power
autonomy
pagan
abdicate
despot
50. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
concubine
pagan
primogeniture
theocracy