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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. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
alleviate
gestation
gregarious
grievous
2. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
leery
pajorative
fallow
vestige
3. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
malleable
esoteric
plethora
hermetic
4. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
ingenuous
jettison
invective
disparate
5. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
demagogue
arbitrate
debutante
ingrate
6. Flamboyant/verve/dash
polemic
panache
vacillate
overwrought
7. Influence or domination over
insurrection
gestation
banal
hegemony
8. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
hegemony
waver
whimsical
pajorative
9. Theft of property
bombastic
burnish
larceny
ingratiate
10. Frolicsome/ playful
grovel
sportive
erratic
kindle
11. Self contradictory
waver
abyss
paradox
pristine
12. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
gregarious
phalanx
quotidian
gullible
13. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
posit
abeyance
phalanx
pervade
14. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
pristine
demagogue
banal
assail
15. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
permeate
nuance
lucid
dirge
16. Deep hole
acme
abyss
elegy
posit
17. Truthfulness
discern
veracity
impervious
dirge
18. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
zenith
opaque
repudiate
prodigal
19. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
philantropy
lethargic
plethora
terrestrial
20. Respected because of age
homogenous
venerable
archaic
pariah
21. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
aesthetic
austere
belfry
deference
22. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
crescendo
zeal
intrepid
ambiguous
23. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
deface
whimsical
veracity
phalanx
24. To expand like a woman in labor
Dilate
rhetoric
ingenuous
alleviate
25. Funeral bell/ omen of death
gullible
impasse
knell
elegy
26. Turmoil/disorder
homogenous
arbitrary
chaos
frugality
27. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
vacillate
itinerant
austere
overwrought
28. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
veracity
monotony
dogma
belfry
29. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
ingratiate
debutante
vacillate
dogmatic
30. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
Fanatical
jargon
tangential
Amulet
31. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
opaque
homogenous
sentient
alleviate
32. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
overwrought
posit
Fanatical
nuance
33. Perceptive/sharp
lethargic
boor
Keen
deference
34. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
enigma
symbiosis
impervious
venerable
35. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
chaos
verbose
opaque
judicious
36. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
permeate
catalyst
obstinate
intrepid
37. To perceive or recognize
dirge
discern
explicit
esoteric
38. Mark of disgrace
stigma
impervious
plethora
whimsical
39. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
deference
deface
impervious
impasse
40. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
aesthetic
explicit
unequivocal
dilettante
41. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
discern
sentient
latent
lethargic
42. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
intrepid
waver
supplant
hermetic
43. Brilliant/glowing
hermetic
luminous
disparate
polemic
44. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
stratagem
dogmatic
homogenous
jettison
45. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
sportive
slake
kindle
46. Wandering and unpredictable
philistine
antagonize
erratic
crescendo
47. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
statis
advocate
bombastic
48. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
dilettante
meticulous
phalanx
eulogy
49. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
advocate
plucky
apathy
nascent
50. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
judicious
enigma
jettison
abeyance