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TOEFL Vocab: Global Words
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1. A clergyman or other person in religious orders
prophesized
papacy
ecclesiastic
innate
2. Predicted; foretold
stratify
prophesized
positivism
mystic
3. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
puritanical
stratify
papacy
inevitable
4. Code of morality
congregate
ethics
garrison
precedent
5. Otherworldly; mysterious; enigmatic
mystic
eradicate
subordinate
maritime
6. To give up power
precedent
puritanical
egalitarian
abdicate
7. Strength - energy
eunuchs
classical
primogeniture
vigor
8. Royal authority; supreme power and authority
piety
sovereignty
textiles
ideology
9. The body of doctrine - myth - belief - etc. - that guides an individual - social movement - institution - class - or large group.
morality
hastened
adept
ideology
10. To come together in a group or crowd - assemble
congregate
affiliation
vigor
nationalism
11. Relating to or associated with an empire
scorn
imperial
puritanical
garrison
12. Someone who is drafted into military service
conscript
stratify
adherents
inextricable
13. Death rate
puritanical
synthesis
mortality
morality
14. Incapable of being avoided or prevented - bound to happen
garrison
inevitable
heretic
eradicate
15. Lower in rank or position - secondary; one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else;
ideology
sovereignty
subordinate
subsequent
16. Centered on a specific ethnic group - usually one's own
garrison
affiliation
ethnocentric
hierarchy
17. A cruel and oppressive dictator - tyrant
eradicate
pluralism
uniformity
despot
18. Mistress
concubine
congregate
investiture
vigor
19. Decaying or decayed - especially in terms of morals - downfall
decadent
doctrine
paramount
forestalling
20. The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
mortality
patronage
papacy
uniformity
21. Castrated males - originally in charge of protection of the ruler's concubines. Eventually had major roles in government - especially in China.
eunuchs
textiles
piety
medieval
22. To wipe out; to destroy
eunuchs
eradicate
manifestation
heretic
23. Devotion and reverence to God
piety
hinterland
sedentary
pastoral
24. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
stratify
primogeniture
garrison
morality
25. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion
secular
theocracy
stratify
investiture
26. Following in time or order - following - coming after or later
investiture
subsequent
theocracy
garrison
27. Natural - inborn
innate
evangelize
affiliation
autonomy
28. Divide society into social classes or castes; to arrange in layers
stratify
prophesized
suppressed
patrilineal
29. Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
mortality
sovereignty
pastoral
nationalism
30. A subdivision of a larger religious group - A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
sect
abdicate
manifestation
vigor
31. Having superior power and influence
paramount
affiliation
hinterland
secular
32. Incapable of being solved or untangled
paramount
puritanical
inextricable
abdicate
33. Strive to equal or match - especially by imitating
emulate
congregate
hierarchy
textiles
34. Independence; self-determination - political independence
egalitarian
pluralism
autonomy
mystic
35. Living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household
eunuchs
vigor
secular
harem
36. Sameness; monotony; uniform - the same all over
uniformity
hierarchy
congregate
theocracy
37. Philosophy
abdicate
positivism
eunuchs
egalitarian
38. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society ;prestige
mortality
puritanical
status
advent
39. Of recognized authority or excellence; relating to ancient Greece or Rome
indigenous
sovereignty
affiliation
classical
40. Native to a certain area
matrilineal
monasticism
patronage
indigenous
41. Related to the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle
textiles
scorn
mystic
pastoral
42. Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother
affiliation
investiture
ethnocentric
matrilineal
43. Any system of persons or things ranked one above another
prophesized
hierarchy
papacy
advent
44. Belief in government run by religious leaders
patronage
theocracy
patrilineal
lineage
45. Very strict in matters of religious or moral conduct
forestalling
morality
puritanical
sovereignty
46. The ceremony of installing a new monarch
harem
monasticism
investiture
morality
47. To move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry
faction
abdicate
innate
hastened
48. A group - usually a small part of a larger group - united around some cause
ecclesiastic
monasticism
monopoly
faction
49. Largely inactive - accustomed to sitting
pagan
sect
innate
sedentary
50. Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
adept
paramount
synthesis
imperial