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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. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
frugality
intractable
pervade
impervious
2. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
innocuous
nuance
antagonize
symbiosis
3. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
prodigal
archaic
verbose
4. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pajorative
terrestrial
nuance
banal
5. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
dogma
sentient
wraith
hermetic
6. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
repast
lucid
hermetic
latent
7. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
tome
leery
belfry
amalgamate
8. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
lament
advocate
volatile
wraith
9. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
overwrought
phalanx
arbitrary
imbue
10. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
debutante
dogmatic
intransigent
11. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
zenith
ambiguous
listless
connoisseur
12. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
venerable
homogenous
prudence
transitory
13. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
vestige
fallow
philantropy
catalyst
14. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
impasse
jettison
monotony
malleable
15. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
prudence
impasse
dogma
dirge
16. Respected because of age
sentient
crescendo
acme
venerable
17. Perceptive/sharp
insurrection
opaque
overwrought
Keen
18. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
debutante
surly
ingenuous
impasse
19. Effective writing or speaking
posit
stigma
slake
rhetoric
20. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
unequivocal
tirade
invective
overwrought
21. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
meticulous
repast
wily
esoteric
22. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
surly
ethos
latent
terrestrial
23. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
dirge
naiive
stigma
meticulous
24. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
leery
rhetoric
gregarious
belfry
25. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
articulate
dirge
liberal
dogmatic
26. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
sully
luminous
intransigent
jargon
27. Temporary; lasting a brief time
intrepid
malleable
innocuous
transitory
28. Relaxation - tranquility
explicit
repose
venerable
quotidian
29. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
grievous
ingratiate
intransigent
deface
30. Mark of disgrace
stigma
overwrought
stratagem
inundate
31. Tolerant - broad-minded
arbitrate
luminous
liberal
pungent
32. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
slake
chaos
prudence
dogmatic
33. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
ingenuous
imbue
repudiate
meticulous
34. Easily aroused
lethargic
abyss
volatile
obstinate
35. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
leery
analogous
explicit
symbiosis
36. Clever - deceptive
advocate
ethos
wily
enigma
37. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
abyss
unequivocal
luminous
inquest
38. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
ingrate
austere
jettison
sentient
39. 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 ...
hegemony
lucid
plethora
disparate
40. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
malleable
dirge
permeate
41. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
homogenous
inquest
burnish
grovel
42. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
verbose
paradox
panache
statis
43. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
plethora
judicious
polemic
transitory
44. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
kindle
boor
archaic
connoisseur
45. No variation; tediously the same in sound
terrestrial
monotony
catalyst
unequivocal
46. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
convoluted
analogous
adulterate
supplant
47. Suggest - propose an explanation
quotidian
terrestrial
austere
posit
48. To perceive or recognize
gullible
repast
discern
kindle
49. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
ethos
alleviate
insurrection
prudence
50. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
pungent
panache
leery
sentient