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Challenging Words
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
waver
pariah
phalanx
panache
2. Old/antique/bygone/stale
disparate
archaic
ethos
whimsical
3. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
nascent
statis
judicious
dogmatic
4. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
assail
zenith
aesthetic
sully
5. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
chaos
articulate
zenith
debutante
6. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
knell
debutante
arbitrate
austere
7. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
obstinate
gestation
lucid
zenith
8. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
verbose
frugality
antagonize
intransigent
9. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
latent
veracity
slake
archaic
10. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
bombastic
embellish
symbiosis
dither
11. Perceptive/sharp
assail
monotony
Keen
nuance
12. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
permeate
surly
paradox
ambiguous
13. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
nascent
banal
stigma
articulate
14. Brilliant/glowing
chaos
luminous
gullible
dogma
15. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
unequivocal
arbitrary
elegy
imbue
16. To expand like a woman in labor
larceny
aesthetic
chaos
Dilate
17. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
analogous
discern
veracity
catalyst
18. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
imbue
symbiosis
malleable
adulterate
19. Set fire/excite
verbose
tirade
kindle
abyss
20. An investigation or inquiry
meticulous
explicit
dirge
inquest
21. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
catalyst
Fanatical
esoteric
Keen
22. 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
insurrection
imbue
intractable
23. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
larceny
gullible
archaic
24. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
vestige
demagogue
rustic
lament
25. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
alleviate
frugality
dilettante
supplant
26. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
nuance
rustic
grovel
frugality
27. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
ethos
wily
abstain
28. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
prudence
bombastic
demagogue
arbitrary
29. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
explicit
grievous
debutante
ethos
30. Mark of disgrace
abstain
advocate
stigma
tirade
31. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
jettison
malleable
ethos
elegy
32. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
abeyance
austere
overwrought
erratic
33. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
homogenous
grievous
aesthetic
crescendo
34. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
elegy
demagogue
erratic
lavish
35. Altruism/ charity
philantropy
imbue
tangential
abstain
36. Pertaining to beauty
affected
aesthetic
lucid
ethos
37. Funeral bell/ omen of death
knell
ingenuous
meticulous
eulogy
38. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
sully
vacillate
intrepid
dirge
39. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
sully
axiom
ambiguous
zenith
40. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
nuance
sentient
coalesce
stratagem
41. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
adulterate
apathy
archaic
plucky
42. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
repast
prodigal
dilettante
alleviate
43. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
luminous
frugality
abstain
intractable
44. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
abstain
judicious
enigma
ingratiate
45. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
adulterate
ambiguous
assail
stratagem
46. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
surly
discern
explicit
sportive
47. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
vestige
dirge
advocate
impervious
48. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
ambiguous
tirade
tome
nascent
49. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
zeal
stratagem
intrepid
50. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
leery
gestation
permeate
belfry