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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. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
alleviate
articulate
grievous
opaque
2. Funeral bell/ omen of death
gestation
Amulet
disparate
knell
3. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
lucid
catalyst
grievous
knell
4. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
abeyance
dirge
wraith
ethos
5. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
itinerant
larceny
dither
innocuous
6. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
philantropy
aesthetic
malleable
posit
7. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
lethargic
stratagem
repast
eloquent
8. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
repose
hermetic
boor
stratagem
9. Relaxation - tranquility
ingrate
repose
overwrought
monotony
10. Caution/thrift/widom
hermetic
prudence
assail
tirade
11. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
inundate
innocuous
judicious
intractable
12. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
arbitrate
meticulous
knell
inquest
13. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
articulate
monotony
ethos
14. Theft of property
pajorative
larceny
analogous
rustic
15. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
catalyst
aerie
fallow
supplant
16. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
nascent
axiom
inundate
tome
17. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
apathy
aerie
Euphemism
hermetic
18. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
sully
itinerant
vacillate
tangential
19. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
pervade
explicit
eloquent
20. Social outcast
convoluted
ingratiate
pariah
kindle
21. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
connoisseur
lucid
pristine
zeal
22. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
listless
coalesce
philantropy
proliferate
23. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
affected
leery
volatile
24. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
connoisseur
bombastic
advocate
ingratiate
25. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
tangential
philantropy
esoteric
tome
26. Flamboyant/verve/dash
panache
convoluted
gestation
boor
27. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
pervade
hermetic
abyss
advocate
28. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
repose
paradox
pungent
austere
29. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
lament
dogma
coalesce
gullible
30. Respected because of age
ambiguous
venerable
heterogeneous
imbue
31. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
austere
quotidian
intractable
discern
32. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
repudiate
grievous
insurrection
grovel
33. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
acme
transitory
tome
demagogue
34. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
pristine
intractable
verbose
meticulous
35. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
lucid
hegemony
quotidian
slake
36. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
repast
gestation
inquest
ingenuous
37. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
dirge
invective
banal
inquest
38. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
deface
jargon
nuance
grovel
39. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
embellish
overwrought
intransigent
innocuous
40. Adamant - stubborn -unruly - obstinate - intransigent
intractable
liberal
jargon
grovel
41. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
imbue
hyperbole
dogma
rhetoric
42. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
stratagem
zeal
belfry
abeyance
43. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
lucid
ambiguous
waver
Dilate
44. Tolerant - broad-minded
prodigal
liberal
dirge
coalesce
45. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
nascent
leery
itinerant
bombastic
46. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
transitory
sportive
vestige
unconscionable
47. Old/antique/bygone/stale
supplant
posit
dogma
archaic
48. Truthfulness
plucky
connoisseur
veracity
polemic
49. To expand like a woman in labor
connoisseur
Dilate
knell
debutante
50. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
hegemony
crescendo
fallow
elegy