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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. Commute/replace/superceded
convoluted
supplant
gullible
crescendo
2. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
tirade
hermetic
latent
sportive
3. Influence or domination over
nascent
repose
monotony
hegemony
4. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
aerie
affected
archaic
deface
5. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
quotidian
acme
inquest
6. Funeral bell/ omen of death
connoisseur
quotidian
erratic
knell
7. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
opaque
ingratiate
boor
hyperbole
8. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
terrestrial
demagogue
imbue
paradox
9. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
eloquent
malleable
whimsical
zeal
10. To attack or assault - beset
hermetic
luminous
philantropy
assail
11. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
intractable
surly
dither
banal
12. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
dogma
gestation
latent
homogenous
13. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
meticulous
chaos
intrepid
eloquent
14. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
analogous
phalanx
Dilate
intransigent
15. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
pristine
whimsical
luminous
pariah
16. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
gullible
paradox
disparate
obstinate
17. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
explicit
elegy
nuance
ingratiate
18. Turmoil/disorder
overwrought
chaos
analogous
heterogeneous
19. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
malleable
axiom
paradox
opaque
20. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
zeal
hermetic
dirge
ethos
21. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
eloquent
malleable
pristine
ambiguous
22. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
veracity
repast
naiive
antagonize
23. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
supplant
fallow
inquest
24. Effective writing or speaking
grievous
rhetoric
frugality
acme
25. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
prudence
sentient
Euphemism
Dilate
26. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
austere
aesthetic
connoisseur
polemic
27. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
axiom
posit
crescendo
wraith
28. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
larceny
surly
symbiosis
obstinate
29. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
Keen
deface
prudence
unconscionable
30. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
proliferate
plethora
deface
belfry
31. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
posit
plethora
nascent
hermetic
32. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
stratagem
fallow
eloquent
nascent
33. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
hermetic
gestation
belfry
venerable
34. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
convoluted
Amulet
burnish
phalanx
35. Make impure/debase
adulterate
connoisseur
dogma
gestation
36. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
hegemony
permeate
philistine
tangential
37. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
placate
intransigent
stratagem
dirge
38. Flamboyant/verve/dash
dogmatic
invective
panache
dogma
39. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
chaos
aesthetic
whimsical
arbitrary
40. Suffused with light: luminous - clear to the understanding: intelligible - sane. Ex - His ... history of this grim subject is scrupulously accurate - so far as I am able to judge ...
volatile
tome
lucid
grievous
41. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Amulet
surly
abstain
dogmatic
42. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
antagonize
dilettante
sentient
pervade
43. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
aesthetic
ingenuous
itinerant
zenith
44. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
apathy
surly
pungent
debutante
45. Plastic/phony/pretentious
stratagem
dogma
affected
arbitrate
46. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
symbiosis
jettison
listless
pariah
47. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
dogma
abstain
lament
hegemony
48. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
dogmatic
fallow
hegemony
knell
49. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
alleviate
zeal
Keen
ingrate
50. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
articulate
stratagem
archaic
rhetoric