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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. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
aerie
explicit
terrestrial
austere
2. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
verbose
ethos
rustic
surly
3. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
hyperbole
surly
elegy
leery
4. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
paradox
stratagem
Euphemism
convoluted
5. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
lavish
chaos
pungent
eloquent
6. Deep hole
knell
abyss
catalyst
terrestrial
7. No variation; tediously the same in sound
intrepid
waver
abeyance
monotony
8. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
liberal
demagogue
eloquent
9. Clever - deceptive
tome
elegy
Keen
wily
10. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
phalanx
sully
pungent
pristine
11. To attack or assault - beset
chaos
assail
larceny
hermetic
12. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
repast
banal
pervade
embellish
13. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
stratagem
venerable
austere
inquest
14. Temporary; lasting a brief time
pristine
terrestrial
transitory
malleable
15. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
meticulous
ambiguous
liberal
pungent
16. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
gullible
sportive
ingratiate
pungent
17. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
pervade
abeyance
coalesce
pristine
18. Passion - excitement - fervor - ardency
zeal
hyperbole
ingenuous
overwrought
19. Sociable; fond of the company of others
vacillate
gregarious
eloquent
posit
20. Book - usually large and academic
stratagem
Dilate
tome
prudence
21. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
alleviate
dirge
deference
bombastic
22. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
disparate
venerable
gestation
hegemony
23. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
ethos
unconscionable
Keen
permeate
24. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
posit
waver
unequivocal
intransigent
25. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
articulate
plethora
dogmatic
dirge
26. To perceive or recognize
discern
ethos
jettison
hegemony
27. Pertaining to beauty
hegemony
aesthetic
judicious
transitory
28. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
opaque
demagogue
surly
acme
29. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
jettison
intractable
aesthetic
venerable
30. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
assail
vacillate
rhetoric
ingenuous
31. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
zenith
rhetoric
lucid
hegemony
32. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
pristine
acme
overwrought
panache
33. Extremely careful; particular about details - scrupulous - picky - finicky - similar to articulate
veracity
inundate
meticulous
tangential
34. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
austere
tangential
kindle
jargon
35. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
elegy
unequivocal
lethargic
paradox
36. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
sportive
volatile
rhetoric
impervious
37. Funeral bell/ omen of death
whimsical
fallow
slake
knell
38. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
boor
homogenous
wily
placate
39. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
latent
boor
sentient
gullible
40. 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 ...
lucid
knell
repose
rhetoric
41. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
proliferate
jargon
repose
disparate
42. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
antagonize
sully
hyperbole
burnish
43. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
supplant
ingenuous
slake
pervade
44. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
waver
repudiate
boor
panache
45. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigal
gregarious
arbitrary
affected
46. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
stratagem
luminous
banal
dirge
47. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
liberal
impasse
obstinate
statis
48. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
pristine
debutante
abeyance
innocuous
49. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
itinerant
banal
pariah
catalyst
50. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
lethargic
alleviate
repose
explicit