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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
explicit
embellish
dogma
antagonize
2. Excess
elegy
prodigal
leery
plethora
3. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
analogous
convoluted
sully
malleable
4. To choose not to do something
audacious
abstain
jettison
grievous
5. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
sentient
ambiguous
gestation
monotony
6. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
sentient
grovel
ingrate
lethargic
7. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
rustic
ingrate
chaos
dirge
8. Effective writing or speaking
eloquent
obstinate
rhetoric
invective
9. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
frugality
gestation
ingrate
10. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
stratagem
jargon
grovel
dilettante
11. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
inundate
esoteric
Keen
venerable
12. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
liberal
waver
hermetic
Euphemism
13. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
meticulous
lavish
heterogeneous
leery
14. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
dither
arbitrate
banal
naiive
15. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
ethos
grovel
lethargic
inquest
16. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
hyperbole
stigma
placate
latent
17. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
listless
overwrought
apathy
archaic
18. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
elegy
ambiguous
belfry
austere
19. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
abyss
proliferate
dither
20. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
transitory
frugality
impasse
prodigal
21. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
debutante
gestation
symbiosis
ingratiate
22. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
obstinate
alleviate
opaque
23. Pertaining to beauty
Dilate
permeate
pajorative
aesthetic
24. No variation; tediously the same in sound
monotony
imbue
dilettante
paradox
25. Rebellion - mutiny
listless
insurrection
overwrought
boor
26. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
larceny
vacillate
pristine
statis
27. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
ingrate
intrepid
pajorative
stratagem
28. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
zenith
philistine
posit
crescendo
29. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
embellish
prudence
veracity
zenith
30. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
demagogue
itinerant
erratic
connoisseur
31. Commute/replace/superceded
quotidian
wraith
supplant
dogmatic
32. Altruism/ charity
ambiguous
abeyance
obstinate
philantropy
33. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
lucid
chaos
slake
hermetic
34. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
unconscionable
jargon
intrepid
prudence
35. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
aesthetic
lucid
prudence
36. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
eloquent
terrestrial
vacillate
leery
37. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
monotony
luminous
discern
38. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
supplant
vestige
malleable
arbitrary
39. Frolicsome/ playful
articulate
jargon
dirge
sportive
40. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
intractable
axiom
antagonize
bombastic
41. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
slake
veracity
embellish
symbiosis
42. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
tangential
overwrought
lucid
waver
43. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
grievous
pervade
itinerant
inundate
44. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
sully
banal
burnish
pajorative
45. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
wraith
aesthetic
austere
enigma
46. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
aesthetic
dogmatic
listless
eulogy
47. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
nascent
banal
elegy
transitory
48. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
intransigent
sentient
catalyst
inundate
49. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
inquest
dogmatic
abeyance
meticulous
50. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
unequivocal
jettison
belfry
discern