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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
mortality
patrilineal
doctrine
2. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
aristocracy
congregate
stratify
fealty
3. A belief - principle - or teaching
despot
innate
doctrine
adherents
4. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
deity
morality
doctrine
abdicate
5. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
inevitable
hastened
heretic
6. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
suppressed
congregate
positivism
matrilineal
7. Philosophy
inevitable
positivism
garrison
heretic
8. The act of being formally connected or joined
ecclesiastic
affiliation
monopoly
textiles
9. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
manifestation
affiliation
patronage
papacy
10. Based on or tracing descent through the male line
prophesized
patrilineal
subordinate
eradicate
11. A god or goddess
concubine
lineage
advent
deity
12. Code of morality
textiles
ethics
heretic
imperial
13. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
forestalling
ethnocentric
pastoral
ideology
14. Belief in government run by religious leaders
forestalling
theocracy
ethnocentric
harem
15. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
imperial
paramount
eradicate
uniformity
16. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
hastened
inevitable
deity
mystic
17. Strength - energy
vigor
advent
faction
investiture
18. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
medieval
investiture
mortality
fuse
19. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
abdicate
hierarchy
papacy
lineage
20. Preach the gospel (to)
evangelize
ethics
hinterland
venerate
21. Independence; self-determination - political independence
autonomy
adherents
puritanical
fealty
22. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
heretic
ideology
stratify
23. Right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son; seniority by birth
emulate
inextricable
hierarchy
primogeniture
24. Relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
medieval
investiture
status
nationalism
25. Regard with feelings of respect and reverence
venerate
morality
synthesis
hierarchy
26. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
conscript
advent
subsequent
classical
27. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
indigenous
forestalling
faction
vigor
28. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
conscript
ideology
matrilineal
adept
29. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
prophesized
ethnocentric
morality
maritime
30. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
inextricable
heretic
autonomy
papacy
31. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
doctrine
venerate
inevitable
paramount
32. Natural - inborn
hinterland
textiles
ideology
innate
33. To wipe out; to destroy
eradicate
pagan
stratify
patrilineal
34. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
emulate
fealty
despot
lineage
35. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
despot
secular
morality
36. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
matrilineal
monasticism
decadent
37. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
nationalism
morality
inevitable
sect
38. Control of a product or service by one company
despot
papacy
monopoly
sedentary
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
papacy
monasticism
adherents
conscript
40. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
adept
secular
eradicate
emulate
41. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
adherents
hastened
mystic
forestalling
42. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
paramount
sedentary
maritime
decadent
43. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
piety
affiliation
emulate
congregate
44. Woven materials; cloth
concubine
ethics
textiles
vigor
45. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the those of the Roman Catholic Church
heretic
adept
uniformity
innate
46. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
monopoly
garrison
prophesized
pastoral
47. A remote and undeveloped area
subordinate
faction
autonomy
hinterland
48. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
maritime
textiles
advent
ethnocentric
49. Kept from public knowledge by various means; held back
prophesized
suppressed
patrilineal
abdicate
50. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
aristocracy
abdicate
theocracy
venerate