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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. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
intransigent
inquest
tirade
slake
2. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
naiive
opaque
arbitrary
esoteric
3. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
connoisseur
bombastic
permeate
acme
4. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
transitory
larceny
paradox
5. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
austere
itinerant
surly
vestige
6. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
obstinate
Keen
permeate
analogous
7. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
adulterate
deface
impasse
lament
8. Frolicsome/ playful
plethora
hyperbole
sportive
terrestrial
9. Respected because of age
disparate
pristine
venerable
intrepid
10. Caution/thrift/widom
judicious
opaque
tirade
prudence
11. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
Fanatical
grievous
ingrate
innocuous
12. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
lament
rhetoric
ingenuous
dogma
13. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
catalyst
erratic
discern
listless
14. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
invective
eulogy
sully
gullible
15. Social outcast
eulogy
dirge
pariah
Keen
16. To polish
stigma
Keen
transitory
burnish
17. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
demagogue
transitory
prudence
placate
18. Bucolic - rural
rustic
deference
fallow
jettison
19. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
Amulet
disparate
verbose
crescendo
20. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
dirge
nuance
gullible
arbitrary
21. To perceive or recognize
paradox
abeyance
discern
eloquent
22. Wandering and unpredictable
dogmatic
discern
erratic
grievous
23. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
assail
phalanx
banal
24. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
venerable
ingenuous
unequivocal
ambiguous
25. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
abeyance
panache
monotony
belfry
26. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
lament
frugality
dilettante
27. To expand like a woman in labor
erratic
eulogy
pariah
Dilate
28. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
impervious
pervade
articulate
embellish
29. Funeral bell/ omen of death
esoteric
enigma
knell
Fanatical
30. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
repast
Fanatical
jargon
eloquent
31. Rebellion - mutiny
grievous
itinerant
insurrection
listless
32. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
adulterate
antagonize
repose
nascent
33. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
latent
deface
arbitrate
34. Mark of disgrace
articulate
axiom
stigma
eloquent
35. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
acme
advocate
antagonize
judicious
36. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
acme
embellish
judicious
kindle
37. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
gullible
Fanatical
stigma
38. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
heterogeneous
zeal
sully
knell
39. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Amulet
vestige
wily
repudiate
40. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
unequivocal
waver
pungent
lucid
41. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
surly
sentient
audacious
stratagem
42. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
transitory
impervious
burnish
articulate
43. Suggest - propose an explanation
esoteric
convoluted
amalgamate
posit
44. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
embellish
Amulet
vacillate
repast
45. Sociable; fond of the company of others
disparate
gestation
intractable
gregarious
46. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
boor
knell
repast
grievous
47. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
ambiguous
gullible
enigma
repudiate
48. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
waver
ingenuous
innocuous
leery
49. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
stratagem
ethos
abeyance
convoluted
50. Tolerant - broad-minded
inundate
liberal
rhetoric
venerable