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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An investigation or inquiry
surly
inquest
fallow
eloquent
2. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
pajorative
embellish
arbitrate
acme
3. Effective writing or speaking
pajorative
heterogeneous
erratic
rhetoric
4. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
jargon
affected
rustic
unequivocal
5. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
wily
grovel
latent
transitory
6. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
luminous
wraith
homogenous
dogma
7. To attack or assault - beset
assail
discern
abyss
innocuous
8. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
prudence
sully
permeate
frugality
9. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
latent
intrepid
fallow
zenith
10. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
bombastic
austere
frugality
liberal
11. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
arbitrate
crescendo
unequivocal
overwrought
12. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
connoisseur
gullible
liberal
Amulet
13. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
stigma
impervious
philantropy
disparate
14. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
malleable
lucid
Amulet
nuance
15. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
supplant
dilettante
discern
affected
16. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
frugality
repast
disparate
17. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
invective
gestation
terrestrial
symbiosis
18. Social outcast
prodigal
pariah
slake
catalyst
19. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
imbue
lucid
fallow
intractable
20. Truthfulness
phalanx
polemic
elegy
veracity
21. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
boor
arbitrary
bombastic
unconscionable
22. No variation; tediously the same in sound
philistine
banal
ethos
monotony
23. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
grovel
proliferate
audacious
gestation
24. To choose not to do something
homogenous
analogous
abstain
catalyst
25. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
debutante
symbiosis
Dilate
waver
26. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
burnish
nuance
banal
demagogue
27. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
symbiosis
affected
arbitrate
audacious
28. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
aesthetic
archaic
lethargic
permeate
29. Book - usually large and academic
archaic
plucky
tome
stigma
30. Mark of disgrace
wily
posit
stigma
philantropy
31. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
ingrate
prodigal
gregarious
connoisseur
32. Growing in number quickly/spawn
phalanx
demagogue
explicit
proliferate
33. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
gestation
meticulous
explicit
34. Wandering and unpredictable
prodigal
paradox
placate
erratic
35. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
latent
disparate
eulogy
wraith
36. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
archaic
erratic
philistine
abstain
37. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
phalanx
hermetic
judicious
heterogeneous
38. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
dirge
chaos
judicious
archaic
39. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
rhetoric
assail
gregarious
waver
40. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
itinerant
placate
deference
dilettante
41. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
aerie
opaque
dither
innocuous
42. 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 ...
lucid
naiive
Euphemism
repose
43. Brilliant/glowing
luminous
arbitrary
deface
heterogeneous
44. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
overwrought
gullible
grievous
polemic
45. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
explicit
stratagem
abeyance
prudence
46. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
ethos
catalyst
advocate
apathy
47. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
gestation
statis
chaos
frugality
48. Perceptive/sharp
zenith
lethargic
Keen
esoteric
49. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
overwrought
pungent
homogenous
sully
50. Caution/thrift/widom
panache
permeate
philantropy
prudence