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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
proliferate
elegy
surly
esoteric
2. Sociable; fond of the company of others
terrestrial
analogous
tome
gregarious
3. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
lethargic
gestation
unequivocal
4. Turmoil/disorder
chaos
boor
heterogeneous
repudiate
5. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
insurrection
plucky
ambiguous
dilettante
6. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pajorative
aesthetic
gregarious
lucid
7. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
pariah
burnish
Euphemism
philistine
8. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
quotidian
innocuous
Dilate
bombastic
9. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
austere
liberal
quotidian
abeyance
10. Perceptive/sharp
terrestrial
debutante
Keen
arbitrate
11. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
deference
malleable
connoisseur
abstain
12. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
invective
placate
plethora
Amulet
13. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
impervious
sentient
Amulet
jettison
14. A trace of something that once was present
sentient
supplant
insurrection
vestige
15. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
hermetic
polemic
lethargic
opaque
16. Growing in number quickly/spawn
intractable
proliferate
prodigal
gestation
17. Flamboyant/verve/dash
supplant
Fanatical
veracity
panache
18. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
apathy
gregarious
zenith
intrepid
19. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
verbose
placate
hegemony
listless
20. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
burnish
innocuous
belfry
advocate
21. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
judicious
inundate
convoluted
apathy
22. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
heterogeneous
eloquent
opaque
transitory
23. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
crescendo
demagogue
lament
chaos
24. Credulous/ easily deceived/ simple minded/ingenuous/gullible
assail
naiive
dither
larceny
25. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
pristine
lavish
monotony
boor
26. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
chaos
archaic
discern
Amulet
27. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
acme
symbiosis
discern
larceny
28. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
malleable
aerie
pervade
pristine
29. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
grovel
bombastic
alleviate
30. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
austere
bombastic
adulterate
kindle
31. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
bombastic
volatile
sportive
32. Book - usually large and academic
ingratiate
tome
sentient
volatile
33. Wandering and unpredictable
hermetic
symbiosis
erratic
archaic
34. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
dogma
analogous
plethora
lucid
35. Relaxation - tranquility
repast
dogmatic
repose
wraith
36. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
permeate
gestation
rustic
judicious
37. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
nuance
deface
inquest
vacillate
38. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
explicit
analogous
transitory
eulogy
39. Old/antique/bygone/stale
pajorative
tome
bombastic
archaic
40. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
Fanatical
knell
homogenous
gregarious
41. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
panache
itinerant
sentient
frugality
42. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
axiom
verbose
dirge
impervious
43. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
impasse
impervious
nuance
intractable
44. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
pristine
monotony
inundate
deface
45. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
coalesce
chaos
advocate
46. Bucolic - rural
explicit
listless
inundate
rustic
47. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
gullible
catalyst
fallow
aesthetic
48. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
ambiguous
overwrought
dogma
rhetoric
49. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
panache
pristine
obstinate
lament
50. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
lament
wily
Dilate
demagogue