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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. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
insurrection
prodigal
opaque
antagonize
2. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
connoisseur
permeate
abstain
Dilate
3. Influence or domination over
hegemony
jargon
grovel
larceny
4. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
sportive
monotony
hermetic
phalanx
5. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
antagonize
paradox
nuance
6. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
grovel
Dilate
zeal
invective
7. Set fire/excite
kindle
lucid
deference
inquest
8. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
ambiguous
enigma
dirge
ethos
9. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
demagogue
Fanatical
disparate
elegy
10. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
judicious
paradox
philantropy
embellish
11. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
articulate
plucky
dirge
larceny
12. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
dilettante
disparate
Dilate
imbue
13. Perceptive/sharp
surly
itinerant
analogous
Keen
14. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
lucid
tangential
pungent
posit
15. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
ingenuous
nascent
statis
larceny
16. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
imbue
verbose
intrepid
kindle
17. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
homogenous
erratic
proliferate
boor
18. A trace of something that once was present
Dilate
quotidian
vestige
insurrection
19. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
malleable
bombastic
impasse
polemic
20. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
pungent
sentient
overwrought
apathy
21. Brilliant/glowing
boor
tome
articulate
luminous
22. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
lethargic
archaic
aerie
dilettante
23. Theft of property
abeyance
rustic
larceny
hermetic
24. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
meticulous
ingenuous
crescendo
demagogue
25. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
alleviate
lethargic
vestige
hermetic
26. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
sentient
obstinate
polemic
austere
27. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
tirade
dither
gullible
debutante
28. Growing in number quickly/spawn
gregarious
meticulous
overwrought
proliferate
29. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
pervade
waver
debutante
listless
30. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
zenith
esoteric
impervious
discern
31. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
dilettante
assail
quotidian
obstinate
32. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
stratagem
jettison
amalgamate
posit
33. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
lucid
judicious
audacious
permeate
34. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
connoisseur
articulate
deference
larceny
35. An investigation or inquiry
inquest
ingrate
insurrection
grievous
36. 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 ...
sully
lucid
pungent
kindle
37. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
posit
lament
deface
38. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
sentient
vacillate
ingenuous
placate
39. Social outcast
listless
verbose
pariah
dirge
40. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
amalgamate
eloquent
dither
dilettante
41. Sociable; fond of the company of others
gestation
gregarious
fallow
Dilate
42. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
enigma
eulogy
pungent
overwrought
43. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
audacious
jargon
meticulous
eloquent
44. Caution/thrift/widom
articulate
prudence
pajorative
unequivocal
45. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
tome
elegy
discern
46. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
lament
wily
philantropy
inquest
47. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
latent
eulogy
posit
audacious
48. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
assail
repast
grievous
repudiate
49. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
abeyance
antagonize
vacillate
convoluted
50. Pertaining to beauty
proliferate
tangential
aesthetic
veracity