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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. Social outcast
burnish
amalgamate
pungent
pariah
2. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
grievous
sully
quotidian
enigma
3. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
dirge
inquest
slake
symbiosis
4. Effective writing or speaking
hegemony
advocate
rhetoric
debutante
5. Make impure/debase
adulterate
rhetoric
amalgamate
zenith
6. Coalesce - fuse
amalgamate
austere
hermetic
catalyst
7. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
ingenuous
frugality
knell
boor
8. Set fire/excite
symbiosis
pajorative
abyss
kindle
9. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
philistine
analogous
slake
leery
10. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
repast
ingratiate
abstain
nuance
11. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
zeal
symbiosis
obstinate
abstain
12. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
grievous
boor
fallow
ingenuous
13. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
volatile
burnish
ambiguous
connoisseur
14. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
philistine
analogous
gullible
gestation
15. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
listless
advocate
intractable
leery
16. Excess
plethora
imbue
arbitrary
chaos
17. Easily aroused
gullible
volatile
verbose
monotony
18. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
philistine
wraith
abyss
prudence
19. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
posit
convoluted
stratagem
permeate
20. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
inquest
apathy
intrepid
intractable
21. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
itinerant
stigma
hermetic
plucky
22. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
enigma
pungent
inquest
heterogeneous
23. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
apathy
nascent
ethos
dilettante
24. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
permeate
sportive
stratagem
dither
25. Old/antique/bygone/stale
latent
apathy
waver
archaic
26. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
wily
ethos
lucid
eloquent
27. Self contradictory
rhetoric
unequivocal
paradox
larceny
28. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
philistine
whimsical
jargon
leery
29. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
itinerant
lucid
analogous
meticulous
30. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
lucid
unconscionable
pervade
imbue
31. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
catalyst
Euphemism
adulterate
pristine
32. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
heterogeneous
esoteric
tangential
repose
33. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
frugality
intransigent
grovel
Euphemism
34. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
tirade
dirge
paradox
acme
35. To perceive or recognize
discern
whimsical
deface
insurrection
36. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
boor
antagonize
pristine
volatile
37. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
dogmatic
Keen
gullible
tirade
38. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
phalanx
abyss
chaos
wily
39. Growing in number quickly/spawn
lucid
quotidian
stratagem
proliferate
40. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
belfry
ingenuous
ambiguous
plucky
41. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
connoisseur
meticulous
repast
placate
42. Flamboyant/verve/dash
nascent
convoluted
panache
judicious
43. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
gregarious
lethargic
stigma
ambiguous
44. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
symbiosis
deference
liberal
45. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
naiive
hermetic
inquest
Amulet
46. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
alleviate
lament
advocate
sentient
47. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
assail
pungent
ethos
zeal
48. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
explicit
Euphemism
gullible
polemic
49. Truthfulness
veracity
banal
pungent
latent
50. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
tangential
philantropy
pajorative
frugality