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Challenging Words
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
homogenous
elegy
ingratiate
sportive
2. Set fire/excite
innocuous
kindle
repose
fallow
3. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
statis
plethora
eulogy
lucid
4. Mark of disgrace
supplant
phalanx
stigma
aerie
5. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
malleable
rustic
waver
dither
6. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
impasse
connoisseur
dirge
arbitrary
7. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
dirge
belfry
pajorative
supplant
8. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
phalanx
tirade
prodigal
aesthetic
9. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
dirge
apathy
overwrought
arbitrary
10. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
terrestrial
judicious
aerie
eulogy
11. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
catalyst
arbitrary
Euphemism
dirge
12. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
plucky
pervade
overwrought
sully
13. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
arbitrary
innocuous
connoisseur
abyss
14. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
jargon
gullible
analogous
terrestrial
15. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
jettison
pariah
malleable
vacillate
16. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
bombastic
hermetic
disparate
sportive
17. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
unconscionable
posit
explicit
18. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
zenith
imbue
zeal
overwrought
19. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
catalyst
naiive
plucky
nuance
20. Effective writing or speaking
zenith
rhetoric
lethargic
panache
21. Relaxation - tranquility
abstain
tangential
repose
knell
22. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
tangential
malleable
symbiosis
rustic
23. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
leery
abstain
audacious
overwrought
24. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
prodigal
paradox
embellish
listless
25. Self contradictory
quotidian
lucid
paradox
belfry
26. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
sportive
knell
fallow
repast
27. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
dogma
nascent
Keen
panache
28. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
sportive
abeyance
arbitrary
wraith
29. To attack or assault - beset
audacious
assail
lament
wraith
30. Bucolic - rural
rustic
dogma
alleviate
innocuous
31. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
statis
tirade
embellish
32. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
slake
boor
venerable
dirge
33. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
imbue
philantropy
impervious
analogous
34. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
innocuous
hermetic
permeate
tome
35. Make impure/debase
tangential
repudiate
assail
adulterate
36. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
abstain
phalanx
vestige
kindle
37. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
frugality
stratagem
pajorative
rustic
38. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
nascent
stigma
ambiguous
veracity
39. Temporary; lasting a brief time
connoisseur
transitory
dilettante
liberal
40. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
hermetic
luminous
innocuous
deface
41. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
posit
leery
dirge
overwrought
42. Easily aroused
paradox
volatile
plucky
surly
43. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
statis
supplant
hyperbole
assail
44. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
ingrate
pungent
meticulous
hermetic
45. Turmoil/disorder
lament
verbose
ingratiate
chaos
46. Theft of property
larceny
dirge
arbitrary
dogmatic
47. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
analogous
meticulous
gullible
repose
48. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
dogma
intrepid
hermetic
lethargic
49. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
polemic
connoisseur
Fanatical
grievous
50. Excess
plethora
homogenous
volatile
bombastic