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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. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
proliferate
ingratiate
banal
rhetoric
2. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
tome
sentient
elegy
apathy
3. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
eulogy
larceny
lament
overwrought
4. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
stigma
naiive
arbitrary
prodigal
5. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
kindle
sentient
wily
grovel
6. Set fire/excite
debutante
sentient
repudiate
kindle
7. Social outcast
discern
stigma
luminous
pariah
8. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
pariah
impervious
knell
quotidian
9. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
prodigal
Fanatical
articulate
unconscionable
10. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
repudiate
archaic
gestation
vestige
11. Make impure/debase
adulterate
slake
vacillate
amalgamate
12. Funeral bell/ omen of death
knell
phalanx
veracity
imbue
13. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
posit
repudiate
lament
imbue
14. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
malleable
wraith
slake
proliferate
15. To expand like a woman in labor
tome
Dilate
acme
dirge
16. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
judicious
impervious
coalesce
analogous
17. Self contradictory
paradox
explicit
polemic
debutante
18. Frolicsome/ playful
audacious
impervious
intransigent
sportive
19. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
surly
placate
esoteric
overwrought
20. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
impasse
gestation
discern
21. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
deface
veracity
intrepid
jargon
22. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
intransigent
deference
polemic
hegemony
23. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
boor
permeate
articulate
innocuous
24. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
repose
posit
quotidian
grievous
25. An investigation or inquiry
demagogue
inquest
alleviate
Fanatical
26. Caution/thrift/widom
terrestrial
polemic
unconscionable
prudence
27. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
banal
antagonize
verbose
abstain
28. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
dither
paradox
vacillate
bombastic
29. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
terrestrial
ingratiate
repudiate
innocuous
30. Turmoil/disorder
overwrought
dirge
chaos
obstinate
31. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
lucid
kindle
analogous
venerable
32. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
impervious
embellish
arbitrate
33. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
rustic
debutante
slake
ethos
34. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
hermetic
intractable
latent
philantropy
35. Sociable; fond of the company of others
intransigent
gregarious
invective
repose
36. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
vestige
debutante
unequivocal
ingratiate
37. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
repudiate
unequivocal
tangential
demagogue
38. Old/antique/bygone/stale
rustic
abeyance
fallow
archaic
39. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
ingenuous
heterogeneous
repudiate
posit
40. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
archaic
waver
dirge
intractable
41. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
bombastic
hermetic
repast
ingrate
42. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
crescendo
repast
repudiate
stigma
43. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
eulogy
arbitrate
aesthetic
grovel
44. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
grievous
prudence
advocate
crescendo
45. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
meticulous
luminous
slake
antagonize
46. To perceive or recognize
frugality
imbue
eulogy
discern
47. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
dogmatic
proliferate
supplant
banal
48. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
grovel
listless
catalyst
invective
49. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
deference
pristine
insurrection
apathy
50. Respected because of age
venerable
prodigal
repose
arbitrary