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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Book - usually large and academic
sentient
lavish
tome
intrepid
2. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
sportive
intransigent
paradox
3. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
connoisseur
placate
venerable
quotidian
4. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
tirade
ambiguous
dither
jettison
5. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
inquest
lucid
sportive
deference
6. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
opaque
prodigal
jargon
waver
7. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
itinerant
plucky
crescendo
eulogy
8. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
unequivocal
grievous
apathy
abeyance
9. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
articulate
crescendo
chaos
10. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Amulet
vestige
rhetoric
impasse
11. Commute/replace/superceded
repudiate
luminous
supplant
statis
12. Brilliant/glowing
meticulous
austere
vacillate
luminous
13. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
catalyst
imbue
innocuous
slake
14. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
lucid
repose
audacious
banal
15. Deep hole
fallow
abyss
demagogue
grovel
16. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
judicious
imbue
crescendo
prodigal
17. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
repudiate
permeate
intrepid
arbitrate
18. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
assail
Fanatical
listless
jettison
19. To expand like a woman in labor
unconscionable
liberal
Dilate
antagonize
20. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
statis
homogenous
sully
sentient
21. To polish
burnish
imbue
panache
paradox
22. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
Fanatical
repose
stratagem
intrepid
23. To choose not to do something
intransigent
coalesce
abstain
obstinate
24. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
volatile
ingenuous
Fanatical
frugality
25. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
waver
hyperbole
impasse
wily
26. Relaxation - tranquility
itinerant
repose
tome
statis
27. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
advocate
slake
dirge
elegy
28. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
hermetic
homogenous
sully
repudiate
29. To perceive or recognize
discern
pervade
rhetoric
verbose
30. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
innocuous
dogma
embellish
antagonize
31. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
arbitrary
latent
philistine
tome
32. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
demagogue
audacious
repast
opaque
33. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
deface
advocate
assail
latent
34. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
quotidian
rustic
fallow
impervious
35. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
boor
dogmatic
leery
frugality
36. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
plethora
coalesce
symbiosis
philistine
37. Growing in number quickly/spawn
arbitrary
hyperbole
sully
proliferate
38. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
pungent
terrestrial
audacious
nascent
39. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
arbitrate
invective
dirge
lavish
40. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
venerable
proliferate
wraith
intrepid
41. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
Dilate
austere
eloquent
insurrection
42. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
ethos
placate
aerie
fallow
43. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
stratagem
pajorative
ingratiate
rustic
44. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
repose
nascent
dogmatic
debutante
45. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
monotony
inundate
hyperbole
rustic
46. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
leery
transitory
wraith
archaic
47. 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 ...
tirade
overwrought
lucid
malleable
48. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
pariah
audacious
hermetic
articulate
49. Truthfulness
rustic
veracity
abyss
rhetoric
50. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
frugality
ingratiate
grievous
whimsical