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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. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
belfry
debutante
connoisseur
polemic
2. Set fire/excite
lucid
arbitrate
kindle
boor
3. Suffused with light: luminous - clear to the understanding: intelligible - sane. Ex - His ... history of this grim subject is scrupulously accurate - so far as I am able to judge ...
lucid
pungent
hermetic
Fanatical
4. Bucolic - rural
explicit
jettison
rustic
lavish
5. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
kindle
ingrate
gullible
venerable
6. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
phalanx
ingenuous
eulogy
elegy
7. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
banal
analogous
lavish
sully
8. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
intrepid
aerie
arbitrary
repudiate
9. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
waver
prudence
terrestrial
gestation
10. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
audacious
convoluted
esoteric
placate
11. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hegemony
sentient
hermetic
nascent
12. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
lucid
intrepid
Euphemism
placate
13. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
erratic
bombastic
articulate
insurrection
14. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
sentient
aesthetic
phalanx
dilettante
15. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
innocuous
whimsical
pristine
insurrection
16. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
sportive
symbiosis
meticulous
itinerant
17. Theft of property
tangential
listless
supplant
larceny
18. Turmoil/disorder
chaos
whimsical
plucky
hermetic
19. Altruism/ charity
inundate
analogous
philantropy
embellish
20. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
homogenous
acme
prudence
gestation
21. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
transitory
chaos
inquest
lavish
22. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
eloquent
Keen
plethora
austere
23. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
permeate
lucid
explicit
innocuous
24. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
dogma
repast
antagonize
hermetic
25. Make impure/debase
proliferate
demagogue
adulterate
enigma
26. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
acme
volatile
quotidian
Dilate
27. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
prudence
phalanx
proliferate
pariah
28. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
symbiosis
ingenuous
embellish
plucky
29. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
supplant
intractable
tirade
malleable
30. Respected because of age
venerable
larceny
intransigent
disparate
31. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
meticulous
explicit
sportive
convoluted
32. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
austere
tirade
adulterate
plucky
33. Perceptive/sharp
sully
austere
abeyance
Keen
34. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
homogenous
dirge
opaque
deface
35. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
panache
hegemony
placate
ingrate
36. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
surly
pajorative
dirge
posit
37. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
apathy
aerie
transitory
38. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
innocuous
abeyance
boor
lethargic
39. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
banal
inundate
volatile
luminous
40. Influence or domination over
alleviate
aerie
convoluted
hegemony
41. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
disparate
explicit
impervious
tangential
42. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
lethargic
Fanatical
philistine
intrepid
43. Excess
convoluted
plethora
tirade
Euphemism
44. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
philantropy
meticulous
volatile
axiom
45. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
placate
dilettante
invective
naiive
46. A trace of something that once was present
coalesce
ingenuous
wraith
vestige
47. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
naiive
jettison
ethos
deference
48. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
demagogue
crescendo
wraith
hermetic
49. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
zenith
enigma
ingenuous
sully
50. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
acme
ingrate
arbitrary
wraith