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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. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
stigma
symbiosis
vacillate
innocuous
2. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
grovel
deference
inquest
affected
3. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
adulterate
stigma
burnish
pristine
4. Clever - deceptive
abeyance
symbiosis
Keen
wily
5. Theft of property
dilettante
lucid
larceny
gestation
6. Pertaining to beauty
pungent
burnish
plucky
aesthetic
7. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
zeal
ingratiate
unequivocal
analogous
8. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
transitory
hermetic
repudiate
intractable
9. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
fallow
plucky
vacillate
alleviate
10. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ethos
naiive
apathy
ambiguous
11. Frolicsome/ playful
demagogue
sportive
impervious
austere
12. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
banal
Euphemism
panache
13. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
lucid
insurrection
verbose
sentient
14. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
jargon
unconscionable
vestige
articulate
15. Easily aroused
austere
volatile
lament
sportive
16. To choose not to do something
abstain
demagogue
eulogy
jargon
17. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
tirade
connoisseur
dogma
stratagem
18. Plastic/phony/pretentious
crescendo
plucky
eulogy
affected
19. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
deference
frugality
terrestrial
ingrate
20. Altruism/ charity
ingrate
philantropy
nascent
jargon
21. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
leery
hegemony
vacillate
audacious
22. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
rustic
plethora
boor
arbitrary
23. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
phalanx
audacious
demagogue
archaic
24. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
gestation
hermetic
tirade
grievous
25. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
amalgamate
quotidian
invective
whimsical
26. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
placate
slake
pervade
inquest
27. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
lament
pajorative
unconscionable
hermetic
28. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
repudiate
waver
supplant
29. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
posit
transitory
lethargic
elegy
30. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
dirge
Keen
lament
unconscionable
31. A trace of something that once was present
tangential
Dilate
vestige
ingenuous
32. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
dirge
Amulet
esoteric
arbitrary
33. Self contradictory
lavish
liberal
dogma
paradox
34. To perceive or recognize
discern
placate
grovel
advocate
35. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
ingrate
discern
impervious
Keen
36. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
alleviate
arbitrary
nascent
aerie
37. Truthfulness
unconscionable
naiive
veracity
axiom
38. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
dirge
frugality
unconscionable
Dilate
39. Suggest - propose an explanation
connoisseur
convoluted
posit
vacillate
40. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
aesthetic
phalanx
dogma
naiive
41. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
intrepid
eulogy
antagonize
advocate
42. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
unconscionable
disparate
elegy
grievous
43. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
veracity
repast
axiom
analogous
44. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
grievous
meticulous
judicious
ingrate
45. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
ingrate
lament
axiom
vestige
46. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
unequivocal
stratagem
symbiosis
embellish
47. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
veracity
liberal
analogous
lavish
48. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
wraith
placate
impasse
jettison
49. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
explicit
dogmatic
zeal
arbitrate
50. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
lucid
alleviate
demagogue
gullible