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Challenging Words
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Frolicsome/ playful
leery
pervade
sportive
terrestrial
2. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
gullible
grovel
tangential
pungent
3. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
jettison
demagogue
terrestrial
dogma
4. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
repast
convoluted
jettison
philistine
5. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
ingenuous
bombastic
embellish
apathy
6. Altruism/ charity
jettison
philantropy
boor
wily
7. A trace of something that once was present
vestige
knell
erratic
hermetic
8. Effective writing or speaking
enigma
unequivocal
deface
rhetoric
9. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
affected
permeate
elegy
apathy
10. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
lavish
pariah
hegemony
imbue
11. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
ingrate
grovel
inquest
volatile
12. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
placate
panache
arbitrate
repose
13. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
ingrate
austere
whimsical
impervious
14. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
abeyance
heterogeneous
deface
unequivocal
15. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
tangential
impasse
articulate
16. Deep hole
judicious
philantropy
abyss
ethos
17. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
jargon
panache
impasse
tirade
18. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
coalesce
intractable
phalanx
posit
19. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
plethora
connoisseur
bombastic
larceny
20. Clever - deceptive
nuance
chaos
imbue
wily
21. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
overwrought
dogma
discern
latent
22. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
grovel
demagogue
archaic
surly
23. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
vacillate
dirge
latent
lament
24. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
jargon
veracity
impasse
inundate
25. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
esoteric
venerable
repast
Dilate
26. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
phalanx
pajorative
belfry
verbose
27. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
wraith
sportive
itinerant
hegemony
28. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
tirade
imbue
explicit
prudence
29. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
symbiosis
pariah
catalyst
volatile
30. To disavow/reject validity of/deny/disown
paradox
rhetoric
prudence
repudiate
31. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
insurrection
rhetoric
heterogeneous
grovel
32. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
bombastic
crescendo
adulterate
deference
33. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
abyss
elegy
permeate
volatile
34. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
dirge
nuance
invective
philantropy
35. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
zeal
intransigent
symbiosis
larceny
36. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
gregarious
knell
coalesce
affected
37. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
axiom
ambiguous
pariah
antagonize
38. Set fire/excite
sportive
kindle
meticulous
permeate
39. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
opaque
quotidian
intrepid
kindle
40. Bucolic - rural
esoteric
permeate
rustic
sentient
41. Commute/replace/superceded
intrepid
supplant
audacious
philistine
42. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
dirge
analogous
acme
inundate
43. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
intransigent
grievous
pervade
waver
44. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
philistine
listless
arbitrate
malleable
45. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
jettison
surly
abyss
belfry
46. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
itinerant
quotidian
surly
crescendo
47. To perceive or recognize
inquest
discern
vacillate
dirge
48. Brilliant/glowing
frugality
pungent
wraith
luminous
49. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
slake
esoteric
intrepid
lethargic
50. Sociable; fond of the company of others
tangential
bombastic
gregarious
intrepid