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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. Believers - followers
adherents
ideology
despot
puritanical
2. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
matrilineal
patrilineal
emulate
affiliation
3. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
primogeniture
advent
medieval
uniformity
4. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
fealty
morality
pastoral
garrison
5. Incapable of being solved or untangled
inextricable
patronage
lineage
evangelize
6. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
adherents
sedentary
fealty
prophesized
7. The act of being formally connected or joined
monasticism
sedentary
fuse
affiliation
8. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
sect
concubine
patronage
9. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
scorn
maritime
innate
10. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
adept
egalitarian
stratify
investiture
11. Strength - energy
adherents
harem
forestalling
vigor
12. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
affiliation
adept
status
imperial
13. Philosophy
positivism
congregate
patronage
egalitarian
14. Death rate
faction
synthesis
paramount
mortality
15. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
conscript
textiles
ethnocentric
mortality
16. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
theocracy
innate
emulate
adept
17. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
advent
hierarchy
congregate
evangelize
18. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
pluralism
inevitable
piety
manifestation
19. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
primogeniture
suppressed
ecclesiastic
synthesis
20. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
adept
synthesis
evangelize
patrilineal
21. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
nationalism
faction
patrilineal
forestalling
22. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
emulate
suppressed
autonomy
fuse
23. Belief in government run by religious leaders
garrison
positivism
theocracy
pluralism
24. A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
garrison
classical
pagan
adept
25. Predicted; foretold
status
synthesis
prophesized
suppressed
26. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
synthesis
subsequent
monasticism
hastened
27. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
secular
pastoral
garrison
medieval
28. Mistress
harem
stratify
concubine
despot
29. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
congregate
faction
indigenous
sect
30. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
adept
venerate
investiture
forestalling
31. A person who believes in the equality of all people
concubine
lineage
egalitarian
aristocracy
32. Relating to or associated with an empire
patronage
innate
autonomy
imperial
33. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hierarchy
vigor
morality
egalitarian
34. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
sovereignty
concubine
manifestation
ideology
35. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
doctrine
subordinate
pluralism
scorn
36. The combination of parts to make a whole
despot
synthesis
conscript
puritanical
37. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
congregate
secular
scorn
sect
38. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
secular
egalitarian
uniformity
patronage
39. 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
sect
hastened
puritanical
40. A god or goddess
hierarchy
papacy
deity
eunuchs
41. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
inevitable
precedent
fuse
42. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
monopoly
emulate
pagan
sovereignty
43. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
faction
fealty
forestalling
paramount
44. Code of morality
monopoly
medieval
ethics
positivism
45. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
fealty
autonomy
monasticism
46. Someone who is drafted into military service
patrilineal
fealty
doctrine
conscript
47. To give up power
nationalism
harem
evangelize
abdicate
48. Natural - inborn
innate
nationalism
secular
mortality
49. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
maritime
adherents
scorn
adept
50. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
pluralism
pastoral
uniformity
forestalling