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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. Someone who is drafted into military service
despot
conscript
classical
pagan
2. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
vigor
fealty
sovereignty
hinterland
3. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
patronage
eradicate
primogeniture
decadent
4. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
monasticism
subsequent
scorn
indigenous
5. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
ecclesiastic
positivism
eunuchs
monopoly
6. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
abdicate
nationalism
piety
advent
7. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
stratify
egalitarian
congregate
monasticism
8. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
pagan
matrilineal
forestalling
eradicate
9. Faithfulness; allegiance; loyalty
garrison
scorn
fealty
despot
10. Mistress
abdicate
despot
concubine
deity
11. Having superior power and influence
ecclesiastic
paramount
egalitarian
patrilineal
12. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
aristocracy
innate
sect
adept
13. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
hierarchy
aristocracy
faction
doctrine
14. Relating to or associated with an empire
innate
faction
imperial
indigenous
15. Multiple ethnic or religious groups existing in the same area
pluralism
papacy
despot
mortality
16. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
subsequent
adherents
stratify
vigor
17. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
medieval
maritime
status
autonomy
18. A person who believes in the equality of all people
venerate
decadent
egalitarian
vigor
19. Code of morality
ethics
prophesized
patrilineal
evangelize
20. Control of a product or service by one company
eunuchs
monopoly
puritanical
textiles
21. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
manifestation
eunuchs
primogeniture
classical
22. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
primogeniture
prophesized
papacy
hierarchy
23. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
classical
patronage
heretic
textiles
24. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
subordinate
emulate
subsequent
adept
25. Any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant; mix together different elements
aristocracy
fuse
conscript
morality
26. Incapable of being solved or untangled
maritime
patrilineal
status
inextricable
27. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
decadent
scorn
hinterland
stratify
28. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
classical
subordinate
sect
innate
29. To stop; delay - hinder
inextricable
patrilineal
ecclesiastic
forestalling
30. The most powerful members of a society (some with hereditary titles)
monasticism
aristocracy
adherents
stratify
31. A fortified military post where troops are stationed
paramount
subsequent
garrison
theocracy
32. A belief - principle - or teaching
doctrine
despot
imperial
puritanical
33. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
deity
faction
status
scorn
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
ecclesiastic
monasticism
innate
eunuchs
35. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
investiture
inevitable
faction
matrilineal
36. A god or goddess
deity
mortality
medieval
sedentary
37. Predicted; foretold
prophesized
patrilineal
ecclesiastic
hastened
38. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
lineage
vigor
monasticism
39. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
matrilineal
ecclesiastic
patronage
inevitable
40. Woven materials; cloth
inextricable
textiles
deity
doctrine
41. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
precedent
despot
forestalling
suppressed
42. Devotion and reverence to God
scorn
maritime
abdicate
piety
43. Arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)
advent
imperial
egalitarian
manifestation
44. Direct descent from a particular ancestor
pluralism
sovereignty
lineage
prophesized
45. Outward demonstration; indication of the presence of something;
sedentary
piety
manifestation
abdicate
46. Philosophy
ideology
theocracy
positivism
despot
47. Preach the gospel (to)
evangelize
indigenous
garrison
manifestation
48. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
ecclesiastic
ideology
mortality
congregate
49. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
monasticism
medieval
pastoral
evangelize
50. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
puritanical
mystic
heretic
morality