Matriarchal {Ans: a society in which women have authority to make decisions.}Swidden {Ans: an agricultural practice, also called shifting cultivation and slash-and-burn, in which fields are cleared, burned, and planted for several seasons before being returned to fallow for an extended period.}Arbitrariness {Ans: the relationship between a symbol and its referent (meaning), in which there is no obvious connection between them.}Speech act {Ans: the intention or goal of an utterance; the intention may be different from the dictionary definitions of the words involved.}Priests {Ans: full-time religious practitioners.}Exurban {Ans: migration of generally affluent people from urban areas to rural areas for the amenities of nature, recreation, and scenic beauty associated with rural areas.}