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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. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
Amulet
gullible
terrestrial
gregarious
2. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
assail
jargon
waver
nascent
3. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
affected
zenith
ambiguous
vestige
4. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
intransigent
stigma
innocuous
alleviate
5. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
boor
ethos
latent
esoteric
6. Make impure/debase
supplant
knell
pungent
adulterate
7. To overwhelm - to cover with water - to deluge - submerge..etc
disparate
statis
inundate
naiive
8. Sluggish/listless/apathetic
dither
demagogue
hegemony
lethargic
9. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
eulogy
catalyst
acme
10. Altruism/ charity
philantropy
symbiosis
austere
sportive
11. Mournful speech - funeral hymn - elegy
dirge
tangential
deference
permeate
12. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
explicit
wraith
assail
lucid
13. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
embellish
repast
dilettante
gestation
14. Pertaining to beauty
jargon
judicious
aesthetic
apathy
15. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
grovel
erratic
lavish
intractable
16. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
articulate
grovel
repast
aerie
17. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
deference
tirade
zenith
verbose
18. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
arbitrate
pervade
repudiate
rhetoric
19. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
ingenuous
philistine
deference
imbue
20. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
debutante
supplant
lament
21. Rebellion - mutiny
transitory
permeate
rhetoric
insurrection
22. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
grievous
grovel
wily
hermetic
23. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
deface
jettison
assail
apathy
24. Speak - plead - or argue in favour of
advocate
posit
opaque
vestige
25. Innocent - simple - frank - sincere - naiive - credulous - gullible
polemic
ingenuous
enigma
jettison
26. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
tome
statis
dirge
wraith
27. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
advocate
whimsical
overwrought
pervade
28. Unsettled - swaying - fluctuate - vacillate - wandering from one place to another - waver
austere
itinerant
explicit
lucid
29. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
axiom
coalesce
analogous
esoteric
30. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
pristine
jargon
acme
arbitrary
31. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
plethora
lucid
Euphemism
inundate
32. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
stratagem
impervious
leery
prudence
33. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
dogma
phalanx
dilettante
sully
34. Temporary; lasting a brief time
hegemony
transitory
surly
Fanatical
35. Old/antique/bygone/stale
archaic
elegy
meticulous
ambiguous
36. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
abyss
Amulet
deface
alleviate
37. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
sully
abyss
prudence
paradox
38. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
rhetoric
surly
intrepid
heterogeneous
39. Wandering and unpredictable
knell
esoteric
erratic
pervade
40. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
antagonize
pervade
boor
discern
41. Respected because of age
venerable
grovel
plethora
itinerant
42. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
archaic
repose
eulogy
inquest
43. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
permeate
stigma
inundate
articulate
44. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
judicious
jettison
overwrought
dilettante
45. Courageous; brave; valiant; valorous - audacious - intrepid
plucky
dogma
pristine
tome
46. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
prodigal
dogmatic
aerie
Amulet
47. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
judicious
arbitrary
stratagem
audacious
48. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
discern
innocuous
prodigal
adulterate
49. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
waver
nuance
placate
whimsical
50. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
dither
audacious
homogenous
Dilate