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Power Vocab
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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. A person who fights for voting rights
Suffragist
Auspicious
Deleterious
Diffident
2. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Articulate
Conspicuous
Enervate
Diffident
3. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Circumlocution
Notarize
Zealous
Lexicon
4. Friendly or agreeable
Amicable
Loathe
Loquacious
Imperative
5. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Nihilism
Gregarious
Chromosome
Inception
6. Currency used in many European countries
Suffragist
Euro
Heterogeneous
Plethora
7. Beginning or start
Gregarious
Inception
Ostentatious
Circumnavigate
8. Not planned
Acumen
Philosophical
Impromptu
Orthography
9. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Enervate
Deciduous
Xenophobe
Tempestuous
10. Related to or alike
Comply
Verbatim
Chivalry
Akin
11. Slyness or cleverness
Nomenclature
Respiration
Chicanery
Homogeneous
12. Empty; vacant
Wrought
Barbaric
Vacuous
Incognito
13. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Auspicious
Acumen
Ambiguous
Articulate
14. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Sanguine
Vortex
Hubris
Metamorphosis
15. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Plagiarize
Chivalry
Gauche
Incognito
16. To do as you're told
Comply
Hubris
Loquacious
Nihilism
17. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Chivalry
Lexicon
Lugubrious
Ostentatious
18. A complete change
Diffident
Recapitulate
Gauche
Metamorphosis
19. Correct writing and/or spelling
Kowtow
Soliloquy
Orthography
Indignant
20. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Epiphany
Contrite
Xenophobe
Articulate
21. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Auspicious
Philosophical
Circumlocution
Vortex
22. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Chivalry
Comply
Suffragist
Irony
23. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Ominous
Philosophical
Enervate
Vacuous
24. A swirling mass of something (often water)
Circumnavigate
Xenophobe
Vortex
Contrite
25. To summarize; recap
Respiration
Soliloquy
Recapitulate
Nomenclature
26. Crude - violent - untamed
Barbaric
Akin
Deleterious
Vortex
27. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Filibuster
Chivalry
Bellicose
Loathe
28. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Notarize
Facetious
Proposition
Destiny
29. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Facetious
Homogeneous
Verbatim
Proposition
30. Keen insight or wit
Acumen
Naïve
Plagiarize
Filibuster
31. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Epiphany
Gauche
Chicanery
Voracious
32. A lot of; many
Plethora
Acumen
Orthography
Vacuous
33. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Soliloquy
Nomenclature
Surreptitiously
Filibuster
34. A command; something that must be done
Imperious
Imperative
Gregarious
Vacuous
35. In disguise
Incognito
Voracious
Equinox
Surreptitiously
36. Word for word
Hubris
Photosynthesis
Chicanery
Verbatim
37. Cheerfully optimistic
Auspicious
Equinox
Sanguine
Xenophobe
38. A suggested plan
Xenophobe
Proposition
Loathe
Parameter
39. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Irony
Destiny
Chromosome
Plagiarize
40. Equal parts day and night; occurs twice yearly (autumnal & vernal)
Equinox
Opportunist
Loathe
Metamorphosis
41. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Facetious
Recapitulate
Voracious
Impromptu
42. Mixed - having many different components
Chromosome
Chivalry
Heterogeneous
Conspicuous
43. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Articulate
Deciduous
Deleterious
Kowtow
44. Truly sorry
Contrite
Equinox
Voracious
Photosynthesis
45. Obvious; clearly visible
Ominous
Comply
Conspicuous
Ostentatious
46. To intensely dislike; hate
Enervate
Philosophical
Inception
Loathe
47. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Verbatim
Xenophobe
Homogeneous
Irony
48. Talkative
Homogeneous
Irony
Loquacious
Philosophical
49. To make your way around
Tempestuous
Circumnavigate
Auspicious
Ostentatious
50. Made out of; eg. Wrought iron
Diffident
Wrought
Impromptu
Lugubrious