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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. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
banal
latent
hermetic
apathy
2. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
assail
gregarious
transitory
3. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
ethos
pajorative
adulterate
chaos
4. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
whimsical
luminous
lucid
Fanatical
5. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
aerie
tangential
larceny
quotidian
6. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
pervade
disparate
embellish
coalesce
7. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
proliferate
slake
debutante
antagonize
8. Excess
discern
hegemony
Dilate
plethora
9. Frolicsome/ playful
plucky
austere
fallow
sportive
10. Brilliant/glowing
luminous
assail
rhetoric
verbose
11. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
verbose
supplant
tome
12. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
whimsical
convoluted
listless
jettison
13. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
analogous
enigma
abstain
gestation
14. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
antagonize
audacious
catalyst
opaque
15. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
chaos
hermetic
impervious
listless
16. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
lucid
assail
heterogeneous
sully
17. Relaxation - tranquility
convoluted
ingenuous
elegy
repose
18. Caution/thrift/widom
placate
lucid
prudence
symbiosis
19. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
heterogeneous
Fanatical
pariah
waver
20. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
phalanx
lethargic
imbue
dilettante
21. Social outcast
luminous
elegy
grovel
pariah
22. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
verbose
surly
kindle
aerie
23. Effective writing or speaking
deference
permeate
rhetoric
dirge
24. Truthfulness
grovel
waver
naiive
veracity
25. Theft of property
leery
larceny
nuance
boor
26. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
phalanx
audacious
waver
hyperbole
27. Sociable; fond of the company of others
sportive
gregarious
tangential
judicious
28. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
banal
abeyance
pervade
alleviate
29. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
judicious
obstinate
opaque
hermetic
30. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
elegy
wily
plethora
eloquent
31. To polish
larceny
lavish
burnish
pervade
32. Old/antique/bygone/stale
archaic
amalgamate
jettison
paradox
33. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
plucky
Fanatical
gestation
dogma
34. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
larceny
intransigent
tirade
35. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
plethora
Euphemism
coalesce
convoluted
36. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
grovel
intransigent
dilettante
homogenous
37. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
plethora
sentient
unconscionable
antagonize
38. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
panache
lament
aerie
judicious
39. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
abeyance
prodigal
obstinate
plethora
40. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
abeyance
repudiate
arbitrate
wily
41. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
coalesce
abstain
ingratiate
repast
42. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
opaque
nuance
explicit
permeate
43. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
gullible
dilettante
hyperbole
coalesce
44. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
repast
opaque
inquest
wily
45. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
elegy
ingrate
crescendo
analogous
46. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
elegy
Keen
nascent
Dilate
47. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
homogenous
bombastic
pervade
vacillate
48. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
malleable
deface
boor
hermetic
49. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
coalesce
explicit
nuance
gullible
50. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
connoisseur
dither
imbue
ethos