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Power Vocab
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Subject
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english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Guideline or boundary
Lugubrious
Parameter
Indignant
Auspicious
2. Proud or overbearing
Incontrovertible
Diffident
Imperious
Circumnavigate
3. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Ambiguous
Deciduous
Heterogeneous
Nomenclature
4. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Nihilism
Xenophobe
Euro
Contrite
5. Stormy or turbulent
Tempestuous
Opportunist
Gauche
Bellicose
6. Beginning or start
Inception
Euro
Destiny
Akin
7. Looking inside oneself
Gregarious
Introspective
Notarize
Loathe
8. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Circumlocution
Homogeneous
Destiny
Contrite
9. To intensely dislike; hate
Loathe
Acumen
Opportunist
Comply
10. Innocent; unaware of what's going on
Impromptu
Naïve
Nomenclature
Parameter
11. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Deciduous
Gregarious
Destiny
Contrite
12. An opportune time; good timing
Circumlocution
Articulate
Auspicious
Surreptitiously
13. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Lugubrious
Nomenclature
Plagiarize
Suffragist
14. Truly sorry
Proposition
Circumlocution
Contrite
Chicanery
15. To do as you're told
Vortex
Comply
Lexicon
Surreptitiously
16. The opposite of confident
Soliloquy
Filibuster
Diffident
Incognito
17. Plants getting energy from sunlight
Gauche
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
Acumen
18. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Indignant
Acumen
Facetious
Incognito
19. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Verbatim
Articulate
Chromosome
Amicable
20. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Diffident
Impeach
Circumnavigate
Philosophical
21. Without controversy; you can't argue about it
Orthography
Ostentatious
Incontrovertible
Opportunist
22. All the same
Circumlocution
Homogeneous
Vortex
Equinox
23. Correct writing and/or spelling
Naïve
Conspicuous
Bellicose
Orthography
24. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Introspective
Impromptu
Soliloquy
Loathe
25. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Incognito
Ostentatious
Epiphany
Respiration
26. Cheerfully optimistic
Metamorphosis
Xenophobe
Sanguine
Lexicon
27. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Vortex
Voracious
Notarize
Plethora
28. Obvious; clearly visible
Plethora
Imperious
Conspicuous
Orthography
29. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Filibuster
Deleterious
Acumen
Ostentatious
30. Slyness or cleverness
Introspective
Parameter
Gauche
Chicanery
31. Mixed - having many different components
Diffident
Chivalry
Ominous
Heterogeneous
32. Related to or alike
Conspicuous
Akin
Kowtow
Articulate
33. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Tempestuous
Parameter
Circumlocution
Wrought
34. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Bellicose
Auspicious
Respiration
Hubris
35. To summarize; recap
Recapitulate
Chicanery
Barbaric
Heterogeneous
36. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Incontrovertible
Inception
Surreptitiously
Loquacious
37. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Surreptitiously
Akin
Ominous
Ambiguous
38. Very angrily offended
Nomenclature
Orthography
Indignant
Verbatim
39. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Diffident
Incognito
Nihilism
Gauche
40. Made out of; eg. Wrought iron
Orthography
Wrought
Deleterious
Opportunist
41. Currency used in many European countries
Euro
Heterogeneous
Diffident
Chivalry
42. Talkative
Voracious
Loquacious
Kowtow
Incontrovertible
43. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Diffident
Surreptitiously
Ambiguous
Lugubrious
44. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Lexicon
Vacuous
Naïve
Plagiarize
45. Gloomy
Euro
Articulate
Vacuous
Lugubrious
46. To make your way around
Circumnavigate
Introspective
Ostentatious
Homogeneous
47. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Nihilism
Ostentatious
Articulate
Notarize
48. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Filibuster
Chicanery
Chivalry
Bellicose
49. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Akin
Conspicuous
Plagiarize
Chivalry
50. A complete change
Metamorphosis
Respiration
Photosynthesis
Bellicose