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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. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
dirge
antagonize
prodigal
Keen
2. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
articulate
bombastic
slake
heterogeneous
3. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
coalesce
terrestrial
zenith
kindle
4. Easily aroused
volatile
pungent
grovel
lament
5. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
pervade
dirge
paradox
intractable
6. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
polemic
abeyance
tangential
hyperbole
7. Clever - deceptive
tangential
abstain
wily
lavish
8. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
plucky
grovel
naiive
wraith
9. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
belfry
Dilate
analogous
stigma
10. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
alleviate
fallow
advocate
boor
11. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
zenith
ingrate
imbue
amalgamate
12. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
convoluted
quotidian
dither
homogenous
13. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
dogma
connoisseur
sportive
wraith
14. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
nuance
lucid
tangential
transitory
15. Influence or domination over
hegemony
ethos
grievous
permeate
16. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
eloquent
innocuous
frugality
paradox
17. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
insurrection
analogous
latent
wraith
18. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
arbitrary
rustic
permeate
deface
19. Set fire/excite
placate
kindle
malleable
rhetoric
20. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
Keen
vestige
austere
pervade
21. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
deference
impasse
dogmatic
audacious
22. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
hermetic
abyss
crescendo
explicit
23. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
fallow
intractable
antagonize
24. To attack or assault - beset
hermetic
crescendo
assail
meticulous
25. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
homogenous
discern
meticulous
26. Effective writing or speaking
inundate
explicit
pervade
rhetoric
27. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
grovel
lucid
wily
disparate
28. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
audacious
gullible
convoluted
dogmatic
29. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
debutante
overwrought
gullible
abstain
30. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
polemic
axiom
transitory
intractable
31. Funeral bell/ omen of death
hyperbole
stratagem
knell
antagonize
32. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
obstinate
homogenous
unconscionable
vestige
33. To perceive or recognize
banal
discern
aesthetic
naiive
34. Brilliant/glowing
veracity
luminous
surly
sentient
35. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
acme
unconscionable
sully
aerie
36. No variation; tediously the same in sound
proliferate
monotony
philantropy
posit
37. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
demagogue
dogmatic
grievous
abeyance
38. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
elegy
dirge
hermetic
pervade
39. Deep hole
waver
abyss
invective
symbiosis
40. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
phalanx
whimsical
symbiosis
leery
41. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
repudiate
Euphemism
rhetoric
pervade
42. Tolerant - broad-minded
knell
liberal
archaic
banal
43. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
ethos
impasse
frugality
44. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
inundate
convoluted
listless
45. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
sully
repudiate
frugality
vestige
46. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
demagogue
quotidian
unconscionable
Amulet
47. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
meticulous
slake
articulate
lucid
48. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
boor
intrepid
insurrection
abeyance
49. Book - usually large and academic
tome
grovel
vestige
symbiosis
50. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
advocate
debutante
monotony