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english
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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. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
vacillate
hermetic
zeal
symbiosis
2. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
naiive
coalesce
affected
symbiosis
3. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
nascent
tome
prudence
4. Deep hole
gullible
abyss
philantropy
leery
5. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
unconscionable
permeate
stratagem
imbue
6. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
crescendo
quotidian
insurrection
luminous
7. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
volatile
itinerant
intransigent
ingrate
8. Frolicsome/ playful
wraith
esoteric
hyperbole
sportive
9. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
unconscionable
ambiguous
placate
assail
10. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
gregarious
panache
placate
itinerant
11. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
rhetoric
fallow
grievous
lament
12. Altruism/ charity
hermetic
philantropy
Euphemism
disparate
13. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
demagogue
lethargic
Fanatical
repudiate
14. To choose not to do something
veracity
abstain
acme
arbitrate
15. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
ambiguous
monotony
tangential
deface
16. Old/antique/bygone/stale
stratagem
quotidian
archaic
explicit
17. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
sully
enigma
waver
transitory
18. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
kindle
catalyst
luminous
gullible
19. Suggest - propose an explanation
posit
disparate
imbue
stratagem
20. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
acme
abyss
knell
rustic
21. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
intrepid
impasse
abyss
symbiosis
22. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
Keen
repose
malleable
innocuous
23. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
symbiosis
pristine
repudiate
explicit
24. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
intractable
assail
knell
pajorative
25. Respected because of age
venerable
meticulous
wily
archaic
26. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
paradox
enigma
advocate
lavish
27. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
dirge
impasse
deference
lucid
28. Mark of disgrace
arbitrary
Keen
sentient
stigma
29. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
deference
quotidian
banal
verbose
30. Temporary; lasting a brief time
inundate
venerable
belfry
transitory
31. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
sully
ethos
boor
coalesce
32. Self contradictory
paradox
vestige
philistine
heterogeneous
33. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
dirge
tirade
unequivocal
zeal
34. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
wraith
insurrection
alleviate
statis
35. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
heterogeneous
stigma
obstinate
aerie
36. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
jettison
lucid
lament
axiom
37. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
austere
deface
heterogeneous
aerie
38. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
quotidian
invective
lavish
analogous
39. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
monotony
slake
ingrate
Dilate
40. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
Keen
placate
quotidian
austere
41. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
sentient
obstinate
plucky
42. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
demagogue
wily
analogous
dirge
43. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
heterogeneous
stigma
impervious
inundate
44. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
demagogue
deface
prodigal
boor
45. Using or showing good judgment - wise - sensible
verbose
wraith
judicious
repudiate
46. To expand like a woman in labor
quotidian
Dilate
eulogy
listless
47. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
jettison
eloquent
wily
innocuous
48. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
abstain
verbose
Fanatical
eulogy
49. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
debutante
leery
nascent
crescendo
50. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
dogmatic
eloquent
catalyst
rustic