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Challenging Words
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Subjects
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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. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Amulet
jargon
tangential
impasse
2. Brilliant/glowing
intrepid
ethos
luminous
elegy
3. Deep hole
abyss
sentient
heterogeneous
lethargic
4. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
hermetic
verbose
repose
kindle
5. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
nuance
pristine
lament
imbue
6. Influence or domination over
impasse
naiive
hegemony
prudence
7. Perceptive/sharp
waver
frugality
repose
Keen
8. To attack or assault - beset
debutante
assail
Fanatical
judicious
9. No variation; tediously the same in sound
wily
monotony
chaos
eulogy
10. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
insurrection
statis
gregarious
bombastic
11. To expand like a woman in labor
dilettante
invective
Dilate
austere
12. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
opaque
ingratiate
proliferate
obstinate
13. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
demagogue
pariah
repast
naiive
14. Clever - deceptive
ambiguous
apathy
aerie
wily
15. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
dilettante
knell
tirade
jettison
16. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
polemic
antagonize
placate
statis
17. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
panache
pungent
esoteric
18. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
ingrate
adulterate
lament
enigma
19. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
grievous
embellish
proliferate
articulate
20. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
convoluted
lucid
naiive
archaic
21. Theft of property
analogous
abyss
larceny
enigma
22. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
hermetic
elegy
kindle
dogmatic
23. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
pervade
nuance
lament
sportive
24. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
boor
repudiate
pristine
ambiguous
25. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
gullible
connoisseur
affected
unconscionable
26. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
prudence
ingenuous
gestation
heterogeneous
27. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
intrepid
meticulous
vestige
ethos
28. To choose not to do something
venerable
wily
abstain
statis
29. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
demagogue
apathy
aerie
lucid
30. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
quotidian
convoluted
eloquent
monotony
31. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
eloquent
impasse
intrepid
impervious
32. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
wily
analogous
abstain
philistine
33. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
hegemony
rhetoric
itinerant
connoisseur
34. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
dirge
vacillate
pajorative
leery
35. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
affected
elegy
veracity
bombastic
36. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
volatile
imbue
surly
hyperbole
37. Coalesce - fuse
amalgamate
hyperbole
quotidian
audacious
38. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pajorative
surly
fallow
philistine
39. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
belfry
jettison
innocuous
gregarious
40. Frolicsome/ playful
sportive
grovel
fallow
crescendo
41. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
zeal
frugality
symbiosis
monotony
42. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
tirade
dilettante
esoteric
itinerant
43. Pertaining to beauty
affected
aesthetic
aerie
ingenuous
44. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
dirge
invective
boor
fallow
45. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
tome
sully
ethos
advocate
46. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
latent
hermetic
permeate
panache
47. Self contradictory
archaic
paradox
pariah
belfry
48. Set fire/excite
kindle
proliferate
liberal
advocate
49. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
pungent
leery
whimsical
elegy
50. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
supplant
ingratiate
intractable
obstinate