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Global Words You Should Know
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1. Woven materials; cloth
hierarchy
pluralism
patronage
textiles
2. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
emulate
fuse
faction
matrilineal
3. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
manifestation
subsequent
matrilineal
hinterland
4. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
decadent
paramount
fealty
5. Having superior power and influence
nationalism
paramount
indigenous
inevitable
6. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
eunuchs
deity
status
uniformity
7. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
investiture
imperial
inextricable
decadent
8. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
aristocracy
faction
vigor
adept
9. Death rate
doctrine
adept
ecclesiastic
mortality
10. Preach the gospel (to)
evangelize
autonomy
heretic
garrison
11. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
aristocracy
sedentary
medieval
textiles
12. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
eradicate
pluralism
monopoly
13. A god or goddess
adept
harem
uniformity
deity
14. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
autonomy
matrilineal
maritime
manifestation
15. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
heretic
venerate
fealty
16. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
patrilineal
despot
ideology
subordinate
17. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
puritanical
despot
fuse
investiture
18. Devotion and reverence to God
synthesis
affiliation
piety
harem
19. (n) an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action
secular
autonomy
precedent
affiliation
20. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
harem
paramount
status
monopoly
21. Incapable of being solved or untangled
despot
pastoral
inextricable
abdicate
22. A god or goddess
subsequent
precedent
deity
pluralism
23. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
adherents
doctrine
synthesis
papacy
24. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
decadent
eunuchs
morality
deity
25. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
vigor
lineage
ecclesiastic
faction
26. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
faction
pastoral
textiles
status
27. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
status
scorn
positivism
patrilineal
28. Woven materials; cloth
scorn
imperial
textiles
monasticism
29. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
manifestation
aristocracy
prophesized
innate
30. The act of being formally connected or joined
eunuchs
hinterland
fuse
affiliation
31. Philosophy
positivism
adherents
heretic
mortality
32. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
morality
inevitable
paramount
secular
33. The combination of parts to make a whole
synthesis
papacy
lineage
paramount
34. 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
despot
monasticism
autonomy
maritime
35. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
doctrine
affiliation
sovereignty
concubine
36. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
synthesis
matrilineal
emulate
hastened
37. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
venerate
positivism
despot
sovereignty
38. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
pagan
forestalling
investiture
primogeniture
39. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
sect
secular
adept
faction
40. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
status
prophesized
hierarchy
41. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
matrilineal
abdicate
lineage
piety
42. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
prophesized
nationalism
pastoral
autonomy
43. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
fealty
pastoral
conscript
eradicate
44. Control of a product or service by one company
ethnocentric
monopoly
imperial
papacy
45. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one Who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
uniformity
subordinate
scorn
paramount
46. A remote and undeveloped area
monopoly
prophesized
patrilineal
hinterland
47. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
eunuchs
piety
heretic
stratify
48. To give up power
concubine
subsequent
hierarchy
abdicate
49. Open disrespect for a person or thing - look down on with disdain
scorn
hastened
patronage
indigenous
50. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
subsequent
adherents
advent
inextricable
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