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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. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
quotidian
repast
zeal
abeyance
2. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
demagogue
dither
meticulous
lament
3. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
ambiguous
imbue
bombastic
vestige
4. Make impure/debase
prudence
innocuous
deface
adulterate
5. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
jargon
fallow
eulogy
pajorative
6. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
hermetic
statis
pajorative
sportive
7. Set fire/excite
dogma
apathy
kindle
placate
8. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
hermetic
hyperbole
surly
polemic
9. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
quotidian
imbue
ethos
statis
10. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
abyss
liberal
lament
11. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
ingenuous
arbitrary
itinerant
grovel
12. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
insurrection
slake
luminous
stratagem
13. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
banal
intransigent
repast
innocuous
14. 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
austere
impasse
demagogue
15. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
inundate
zeal
waver
articulate
16. To polish
burnish
phalanx
volatile
aesthetic
17. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
innocuous
leery
aerie
lucid
18. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
homogenous
enigma
verbose
stratagem
19. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
erratic
intractable
deference
malleable
20. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
latent
inquest
audacious
advocate
21. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
lavish
polemic
Amulet
apathy
22. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
vacillate
lavish
gestation
listless
23. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
advocate
deference
dither
burnish
24. Bucolic - rural
ambiguous
rustic
convoluted
nascent
25. Flamboyant/verve/dash
tirade
panache
listless
analogous
26. Temporary; lasting a brief time
transitory
banal
intractable
audacious
27. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
zenith
meticulous
debutante
aerie
28. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
imbue
stratagem
vacillate
naiive
29. Wandering and unpredictable
erratic
intrepid
opaque
affected
30. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
nascent
intransigent
austere
crescendo
31. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
naiive
pristine
ambiguous
32. Relaxation - tranquility
monotony
aesthetic
polemic
repose
33. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
lethargic
austere
panache
lucid
34. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
frugality
nuance
hermetic
35. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
polemic
invective
itinerant
vestige
36. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
panache
grovel
intransigent
hermetic
37. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
dogmatic
tirade
elegy
hegemony
38. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
listless
impasse
venerable
plethora
39. Funeral bell/ omen of death
advocate
knell
prodigal
zeal
40. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
unequivocal
amalgamate
rustic
dilettante
41. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
abstain
bombastic
aesthetic
jargon
42. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
verbose
bombastic
phalanx
dirge
43. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
convoluted
lavish
esoteric
zeal
44. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
disparate
meticulous
intransigent
45. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
wraith
zeal
unequivocal
lavish
46. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
alleviate
vacillate
grovel
explicit
47. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
hegemony
unconscionable
lethargic
pajorative
48. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
connoisseur
volatile
prodigal
terrestrial
49. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
dilettante
inquest
apathy
inundate
50. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
dilettante
latent
enigma
discern