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Subjects
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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. Wandering and unpredictable
tome
erratic
Dilate
leery
2. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
crescendo
fallow
inquest
3. Growing in number quickly/spawn
tirade
dirge
proliferate
amalgamate
4. Altruism/ charity
knell
philantropy
arbitrary
lucid
5. Self contradictory
stigma
paradox
grovel
hyperbole
6. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
intransigent
monotony
pristine
tangential
7. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
grovel
verbose
venerable
dirge
8. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
demagogue
austere
judicious
impasse
9. Mark of disgrace
terrestrial
stigma
veracity
repose
10. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
nuance
nascent
dirge
placate
11. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
quotidian
Amulet
naiive
pajorative
12. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
surly
rhetoric
belfry
slake
13. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
assail
slake
prodigal
sentient
14. Tolerant - broad-minded
liberal
vestige
pristine
plucky
15. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
jargon
plucky
itinerant
antagonize
16. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
statis
intractable
symbiosis
repudiate
17. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
venerable
verbose
leery
malleable
18. Dictatorial in one's opinion - imperious
innocuous
dogmatic
grovel
audacious
19. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
catalyst
lethargic
dogmatic
overwrought
20. 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 ...
belfry
imbue
arbitrate
lucid
21. Effective writing or speaking
lucid
rhetoric
nuance
fallow
22. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
alleviate
dither
intrepid
Fanatical
23. Brilliant/glowing
jargon
arbitrary
luminous
philistine
24. Bucolic - rural
fallow
rustic
naiive
connoisseur
25. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
affected
frugality
proliferate
homogenous
26. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
ingenuous
banal
inquest
27. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
latent
whimsical
slake
inquest
28. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
imbue
wraith
hermetic
jettison
29. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
sentient
Keen
nascent
permeate
30. To polish
gestation
veracity
burnish
listless
31. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
hegemony
arbitrate
wily
lament
32. Old/antique/bygone/stale
archaic
dither
gregarious
aerie
33. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
larceny
bombastic
unconscionable
alleviate
34. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
vacillate
acme
transitory
monotony
35. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
connoisseur
insurrection
abstain
grievous
36. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
kindle
jettison
hyperbole
homogenous
37. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
repudiate
bombastic
adulterate
acme
38. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
hermetic
luminous
stratagem
malleable
39. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
intractable
tome
quotidian
vacillate
40. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
pajorative
dilettante
hermetic
tirade
41. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
meticulous
symbiosis
waver
explicit
42. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
posit
gestation
analogous
sully
43. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
overwrought
volatile
prudence
explicit
44. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
arbitrary
nascent
panache
obstinate
45. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
innocuous
chaos
inquest
overwrought
46. To perceive or recognize
discern
eulogy
prodigal
liberal
47. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
zeal
explicit
esoteric
obstinate
48. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
itinerant
invective
abeyance
disparate
49. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
lucid
wraith
ethos
50. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
tome
advocate
hyperbole
bombastic