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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. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
Amulet
dirge
sentient
impervious
2. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
pajorative
latent
whimsical
lucid
3. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
grievous
wily
veracity
4. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
catalyst
archaic
naiive
inquest
5. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
volatile
paradox
plethora
dilettante
6. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
ethos
imbue
naiive
intractable
7. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
stratagem
stigma
Keen
inundate
8. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
axiom
Keen
grievous
abstain
9. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
disparate
hermetic
obstinate
arbitrary
10. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
nascent
deference
hermetic
dirge
11. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
dogmatic
homogenous
itinerant
eulogy
12. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
heterogeneous
quotidian
pristine
dogmatic
13. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
abstain
wily
stratagem
gullible
14. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
grovel
gullible
jargon
lucid
15. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
philistine
banal
demagogue
surly
16. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
intransigent
adulterate
meticulous
austere
17. Plastic/phony/pretentious
affected
amalgamate
wraith
judicious
18. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
verbose
pristine
ambiguous
coalesce
19. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
demagogue
bombastic
acme
gullible
20. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
placate
sportive
ambiguous
sentient
21. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
knell
latent
frugality
monotony
22. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
ingenuous
acme
abstain
connoisseur
23. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
kindle
unequivocal
phalanx
hermetic
24. Theft of property
paradox
larceny
ingratiate
burnish
25. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
hegemony
dirge
adulterate
Amulet
26. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
grievous
discern
intractable
deface
27. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
eulogy
plucky
statis
explicit
28. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
vacillate
catalyst
erratic
adulterate
29. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gullible
articulate
pervade
slake
30. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
deface
ethos
zeal
proliferate
31. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
Fanatical
sentient
fallow
elegy
32. Excess
rhetoric
terrestrial
plethora
intractable
33. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
judicious
ethos
abstain
ambiguous
34. Influence or domination over
adulterate
hegemony
repose
stratagem
35. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
antagonize
advocate
latent
eloquent
36. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
Euphemism
wraith
tirade
stigma
37. Self contradictory
paradox
hermetic
whimsical
statis
38. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
repudiate
Euphemism
discern
39. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
dogmatic
jettison
zenith
esoteric
40. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
philantropy
liberal
frugality
sentient
41. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
axiom
grovel
jettison
tirade
42. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
nascent
advocate
pungent
impervious
43. Social outcast
sully
pariah
unconscionable
phalanx
44. To attack or assault - beset
assail
terrestrial
imbue
catalyst
45. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
Fanatical
archaic
dilettante
austere
46. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
opaque
intrepid
demagogue
zenith
47. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
elegy
burnish
whimsical
crescendo
48. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
grovel
connoisseur
crescendo
philantropy
49. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
audacious
surly
panache
deference
50. Old/antique/bygone/stale
venerable
repose
archaic
dither