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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. Excess
itinerant
plethora
dirge
tome
2. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
malleable
arbitrate
vestige
grovel
3. Influence or domination over
gestation
pariah
Keen
hegemony
4. Truthfulness
phalanx
veracity
tirade
impervious
5. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
Amulet
abyss
jettison
aesthetic
6. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
phalanx
opaque
symbiosis
naiive
7. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
unconscionable
abstain
jargon
hermetic
8. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
repast
intrepid
volatile
symbiosis
9. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
amalgamate
intrepid
transitory
repudiate
10. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
prudence
tangential
boor
11. Book - usually large and academic
erratic
tome
listless
polemic
12. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
pristine
polemic
pervade
alleviate
13. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
statis
erratic
stigma
supplant
14. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
philantropy
imbue
assail
hyperbole
15. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
ingrate
zenith
pariah
meticulous
16. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
whimsical
pajorative
pervade
tangential
17. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
impasse
supplant
invective
intrepid
18. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
grovel
pervade
coalesce
dirge
19. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
pungent
monotony
homogenous
jargon
20. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
Dilate
obstinate
Amulet
stratagem
21. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
judicious
aerie
coalesce
prudence
22. No variation; tediously the same in sound
philantropy
monotony
frugality
repose
23. Bucolic - rural
burnish
posit
frugality
rustic
24. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
volatile
explicit
obstinate
ingratiate
25. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
assail
monotony
paradox
26. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
hermetic
larceny
imbue
opaque
27. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
burnish
frugality
eulogy
grievous
28. Self contradictory
veracity
eloquent
unequivocal
paradox
29. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
elegy
apathy
alleviate
axiom
30. Relaxation - tranquility
repose
prudence
zeal
volatile
31. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
whimsical
phalanx
ethos
acme
32. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
antagonize
placate
lethargic
slake
33. Clever - deceptive
aesthetic
rhetoric
wily
audacious
34. Social outcast
ingenuous
gestation
waver
pariah
35. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
frugality
symbiosis
pervade
convoluted
36. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
jargon
chaos
fallow
proliferate
37. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
jargon
chaos
permeate
terrestrial
38. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gullible
plucky
impasse
paradox
39. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
disparate
whimsical
repudiate
40. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
enigma
stigma
bombastic
surly
41. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
knell
waver
tirade
polemic
42. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
belfry
judicious
zeal
meticulous
43. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
dirge
Keen
frugality
terrestrial
44. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
boor
repudiate
meticulous
analogous
45. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
jargon
lucid
inquest
placate
46. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
austere
Euphemism
knell
vacillate
47. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
pervade
alleviate
naiive
transitory
48. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
quotidian
arbitrary
enigma
heterogeneous
49. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
ingrate
catalyst
sentient
dogmatic
50. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
nascent
intrepid
luminous
tome