Summer 50 Terms

Question 1

abdicate

Answer 1

to cast off : discard, to give up sovereign power formally

Question 2

adhere

Answer 2

to give support or maintain loyalty, to bind to a particular set of beliefs

Question 3

advocate

Answer 3

one who pleads the case of another

Question 4

analyze

Answer 4

the study of the separation of the components into its part

Question 5

Annates

Answer 5

a church’s first year profits given to the papal treasury

Question 6

annex

Answer 6

to attach, or incorporate

Question 7

anglophilia

Answer 7

unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English

Question 8

aristocracy

Answer 8

a government where the a small minority usually through hereditary means has much of the power

Question 9

artisan

Answer 9

a worker in a skilled trade (craftsman)

Question 10

assess

Answer 10

to determine the importance

Question 11

avarice

Answer 11

excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain

Question 12

belligerent

Answer 12

waging war, exhibiting hostilities & aggressiveness

Question 13

bourgeois

Answer 13

characteristics of the middle class

Question 14

classical

Answer 14

of or relating to the ancient Greek and Roman world and especially to its literature, art, architecture, or
ideals, classical civilization

Question 15

clerical

Answer 15

member of the clergy

Question 16

common law

Answer 16

The unwritten law, especially of England, based on custom or court decision, as distinct from 
statute law

Question 17

conservative

Answer 17

maintaining status quo, desires minimal, little, or no change to social or political norms

Question 18

conscription

Answer 18

orced enrollment of persons especially for military service

Question 19

despot

Answer 19

a ruler with absolute power and authority b: a person exercising power tyrannically

Question 20

Diaspora

Answer 20

the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity

Question 21

divergence

Answer 21

a drawing apart or separation

Question 22

dogma

Answer 22

a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church

Question 23

ecclesiastical

Answer 23

of or relating to a church especially as an established institution 


Question 24

espoused

Answer 24

adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).

Question 25

eradicate

Answer 25

to do away with completely

Question 26

evolution

Answer 26

a set of proscribed movements, process of developing, unfolding or change

Question 27

extol

Answer 27

to praise highly

Question 28

fallible

Answer 28

the ability/capacity to be incorrect

Question 29

hegemony

Answer 29

strong influence over another group or person

Question 30

heretical

Answer 30

departure of accepted beliefs, usually refers to religion

Question 31

illuminate

Answer 31

to enlighten spiritually or intellectually

Question 32

incept

Answer 32

generally insufficient or incompetent

Question 33

liberal

Answer 33

favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs

Question 34

Nationalization

Answer 34

to place property, utility, resource or business under government control

Question 35

Partition

Answer 35

action or state of dividing or being divided into parts

Question 36

Petrine supremacy

Answer 36

that the Pope is supreme over all other Catholic officials

Question 37

preeminent

Answer 37

having outstanding rank or dignity

Question 38

prevailing

Answer 38

prove more powerful than opposing forces

Question 39

privatization

Answer 39

to remove (something) from government control and place it in an individual’s control or 
ownership

Question 40

proletariat

Answer 40

workers or working-class people

Question 40

purge

Answer 40

to get rid of, eliminate

Question 41

oscillation

Answer 41

to swing or move from one point to another

Question 42

repudiate

Answer 42

to break away from, to refuse to be a part of (change, marriage)

Question 43

secular

Answer 43

not ecclesiastical or clerical

Question 44

sovereign

Answer 44

possessed supreme, unlimited, and independent power

Question 45

tenet

Answer 45

a principle or idea that is held to be true

Question 46

usury

Answer 46

charging of interest on loans, typically unreasonable amounts

Question 47

validity

Answer 47

well grounded, meaningful, and logically correct

Question 48

wane

Answer 48

to gradually fall from power or decrease in size

Question 49

zenith

Answer 49

the highest or culminating point