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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. Fearless - intrepid - venturesome - valiant - valorous - game - gallant - plucky
eulogy
monotony
audacious
hermetic
2. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
convoluted
insurrection
jettison
prudence
3. Social outcast
pariah
rhetoric
debutante
phalanx
4. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
stratagem
sportive
hermetic
plucky
5. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
lavish
luminous
chaos
fallow
6. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
phalanx
latent
abeyance
philantropy
7. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
acme
surly
vacillate
knell
8. Excess
crescendo
elegy
pariah
plethora
9. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
impasse
gestation
jettison
erratic
10. Coalesce - fuse
amalgamate
philistine
chaos
stigma
11. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
ambiguous
gullible
verbose
12. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
impervious
imbue
jargon
unequivocal
13. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
dither
erratic
statis
overwrought
14. Deep hole
advocate
leery
abyss
bombastic
15. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
erratic
slake
innocuous
hyperbole
16. An investigation or inquiry
venerable
liberal
inquest
insurrection
17. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
luminous
ethos
grievous
hegemony
18. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
waver
slake
jargon
placate
19. Perceptive/sharp
Keen
arbitrary
repose
ingratiate
20. To choose not to do something
banal
obstinate
crescendo
abstain
21. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
connoisseur
stigma
affected
waver
22. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
opaque
impervious
venerable
heterogeneous
23. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
deface
zenith
proliferate
assail
24. Pertaining to beauty
dirge
aesthetic
amalgamate
larceny
25. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
advocate
unconscionable
coalesce
aesthetic
26. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
dither
overwrought
debutante
lament
27. Plastic/phony/pretentious
hermetic
affected
convoluted
invective
28. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
meticulous
Euphemism
rustic
unequivocal
29. Hackneyed - trite - commonplace - quotidian
nascent
opaque
banal
demagogue
30. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
permeate
antagonize
surly
explicit
31. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
ingrate
apathy
pajorative
enigma
32. Frolicsome/ playful
advocate
sportive
hermetic
grovel
33. Turmoil/disorder
jargon
meticulous
chaos
innocuous
34. No variation; tediously the same in sound
proliferate
rhetoric
monotony
philistine
35. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
gestation
vacillate
listless
lament
36. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
wily
kindle
deference
articulate
37. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
malleable
jettison
dirge
insurrection
38. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
disparate
dogmatic
quotidian
explicit
39. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
monotony
ingenuous
listless
austere
40. Sociable; fond of the company of others
unconscionable
lavish
gregarious
banal
41. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
enigma
demagogue
repast
debutante
42. Altruism/ charity
zeal
jargon
philantropy
disparate
43. Bucolic - rural
rustic
grievous
insurrection
analogous
44. Sharp and irritating to the senses - acrid - acrimonious - piquant - caustic - poignant
austere
grovel
verbose
pungent
45. 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
malleable
deference
deface
46. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
belfry
discern
impasse
catalyst
47. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
eloquent
leery
explicit
insurrection
48. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
intrepid
gullible
aerie
surly
49. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
erratic
zeal
jettison
esoteric
50. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
gullible
imbue
dirge
placate