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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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1. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
maritime
heretic
evangelize
conscript
2. 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
monasticism
textiles
secular
affiliation
3. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
medieval
stratify
lineage
monasticism
4. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
despot
suppressed
despot
ideology
5. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
adept
lineage
classical
sovereignty
6. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
papacy
aristocracy
medieval
inevitable
7. Mistress
innate
concubine
investiture
puritanical
8. Someone Who is drafted into military service
scorn
conscript
fealty
ideology
9. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pagan
paramount
pluralism
sovereignty
10. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
vigor
theocracy
sedentary
stratify
11. Incapable of being solved or untangled
advent
inextricable
manifestation
adept
12. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
pagan
fealty
classical
suppressed
13. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
paramount
heretic
papacy
hastened
14. Devotion and reverence to God
matrilineal
abdicate
investiture
piety
15. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
doctrine
precedent
matrilineal
indigenous
16. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
concubine
emulate
adept
garrison
17. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
faction
piety
adherents
synthesis
18. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
textiles
indigenous
heretic
secular
19. Death rate
patrilineal
mortality
pluralism
stratify
20. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
congregate
despot
maritime
ecclesiastic
21. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
textiles
adherents
aristocracy
22. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
status
mystic
sedentary
eunuchs
23. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
pastoral
medieval
scorn
aristocracy
24. A remote and undeveloped area
ethnocentric
hinterland
eradicate
deity
25. A remote and undeveloped area
concubine
hinterland
autonomy
doctrine
26. A belief - principle - or teaching
heretic
harem
doctrine
sedentary
27. Belief in government run by religious leaders
maritime
theocracy
faction
stratify
28. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
ethics
synthesis
affiliation
manifestation
29. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
abdicate
egalitarian
fealty
medieval
30. Natural - inborn
innate
advent
monopoly
morality
31. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
garrison
despot
abdicate
nationalism
32. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
indigenous
ethics
venerate
pagan
33. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
primogeniture
manifestation
decadent
investiture
34. Strength - energy
vigor
indigenous
hinterland
morality
35. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
investiture
status
classical
emulate
36. Mistress
concubine
papacy
precedent
uniformity
37. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
adherents
pluralism
egalitarian
ethics
38. A person who believes in the equality of all people
paramount
egalitarian
papacy
forestalling
39. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
hinterland
fuse
evangelize
40. Someone Who is drafted into military service
sovereignty
hastened
ecclesiastic
conscript
41. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
ecclesiastic
patrilineal
precedent
autonomy
42. Philosophy
precedent
sect
positivism
eradicate
43. A god or goddess
secular
congregate
deity
abdicate
44. Belief in government run by religious leaders
status
secular
patrilineal
theocracy
45. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
primogeniture
emulate
hierarchy
concubine
46. Native to a certain area
monasticism
conscript
indigenous
eradicate
47. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
garrison
mortality
adept
mortality
48. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
primogeniture
monasticism
despot
mortality
49. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
hinterland
stratify
advent
adept
50. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
ecclesiastic
subordinate
indigenous
concubine