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Global Words You Should Know
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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. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
fuse
maritime
suppressed
fealty
2. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
decadent
synthesis
mortality
ethnocentric
3. Philosophy
faction
ideology
harem
positivism
4. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
sovereignty
evangelize
hierarchy
5. Philosophy
papacy
patronage
heretic
positivism
6. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
lineage
affiliation
imperial
primogeniture
7. Someone Who is drafted into military service
scorn
subsequent
conscript
adherents
8. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
classical
hinterland
pastoral
9. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
status
innate
scorn
indigenous
10. Someone Who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
pluralism
adept
imperial
lineage
11. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
ethics
prophesized
concubine
12. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
hastened
lineage
deity
piety
13. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
synthesis
paramount
primogeniture
sovereignty
14. To give up power
inevitable
abdicate
imperial
hinterland
15. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
uniformity
subordinate
despot
ecclesiastic
16. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
eunuchs
evangelize
affiliation
inevitable
17. Believers - followers
adept
secular
sedentary
adherents
18. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eunuchs
despot
despot
aristocracy
19. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
suppressed
sovereignty
adherents
medieval
20. Woven materials; cloth
decadent
manifestation
textiles
adherents
21. A god or goddess
manifestation
eradicate
deity
paramount
22. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
sedentary
aristocracy
advent
doctrine
23. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
matrilineal
doctrine
adept
medieval
24. Mistress
vigor
vigor
despot
concubine
25. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
synthesis
congregate
status
patronage
26. Relating to or associated with an empire
paramount
synthesis
pastoral
imperial
27. Belief in government run by religious leaders
synthesis
innate
advent
theocracy
28. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
uniformity
adherents
garrison
morality
29. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
patronage
heretic
pagan
abdicate
30. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
maritime
nationalism
adherents
sect
31. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
ideology
status
paramount
egalitarian
32. The act of being formally connected or joined
sect
affiliation
hierarchy
heretic
33. To stop; delay - hinder
evangelize
garrison
forestalling
subordinate
34. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
doctrine
theocracy
puritanical
subordinate
35. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
pagan
classical
eunuchs
ethics
36. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
autonomy
fealty
suppressed
morality
37. A person who believes in the equality of all people
piety
primogeniture
egalitarian
textiles
38. Native to a certain area
abdicate
decadent
indigenous
matrilineal
39. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
mortality
secular
evangelize
doctrine
40. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
faction
eunuchs
ethnocentric
sovereignty
41. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
venerate
subsequent
congregate
status
42. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
monopoly
affiliation
sovereignty
uniformity
43. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
subsequent
hastened
advent
prophesized
44. A god or goddess
prophesized
deity
mystic
vigor
45. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
maritime
mystic
adept
pastoral
46. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
fuse
subsequent
affiliation
ecclesiastic
47. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
concubine
papacy
matrilineal
forestalling
48. A belief - principle - or teaching
lineage
doctrine
lineage
hastened
49. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
conscript
eunuchs
ecclesiastic
aristocracy
50. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
scorn
mystic
classical
ethics