For the Week ending 03/16/12
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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superior of men's monastery
The word _______ — abbas in Latin and Greek, abba in Chaldee and Syriac — came from the Hebrew ab, meaning father. |
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member of municipal council; magistrate ranking below mayor in English or Irish city
The first-term _______ also publicly challenged Daley -- an act of political courage as rare a dodo bird -- by opposing the Chicago Children's Museum location in Grant Park. |
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bishop at head of ecclesiastical province; bishop of the highest rank, heading an archdiocese or province
By tradition an Anglican _______ is free to ordain whomever he pleases within his province. |
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religious leader among Shiite Muslims, esp. one who is not an imam
His successor, a fighter against the shah rather than a religious authority, was hastily "promoted" to the title _______ in order to become supreme leader. |
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peerage rank below baron and above knight
They tell me that his father was made what they call a _______ because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for. |