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Challenging Words
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
explicit
placate
permeate
Keen
2. Ductile/easily shaped/pliable/adaptable
esoteric
vestige
hermetic
malleable
3. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
supplant
sentient
lament
imbue
4. Set fire/excite
pajorative
connoisseur
kindle
frugality
5. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
panache
gestation
antagonize
zenith
6. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
connoisseur
alleviate
placate
luminous
7. Bucolic - rural
lament
apathy
rustic
hermetic
8. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
rustic
articulate
latent
dirge
9. Easily aroused
proliferate
jargon
tirade
volatile
10. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
eloquent
dither
sentient
hyperbole
11. Dormant - unused - unseeded - idle
dirge
fallow
convoluted
arbitrary
12. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
deference
statis
Keen
stigma
13. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
axiom
rhetoric
embellish
jargon
14. To expand like a woman in labor
stigma
Dilate
overwrought
stratagem
15. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
homogenous
pristine
polemic
inundate
16. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
impervious
jettison
luminous
bombastic
17. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
repose
convoluted
overwrought
18. An orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience - false leader
erratic
impervious
demagogue
intractable
19. To polish
statis
intrepid
gullible
burnish
20. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
archaic
convoluted
zenith
overwrought
21. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
abyss
bombastic
obstinate
prudence
22. To attack or assault - beset
arbitrary
jargon
assail
zeal
23. Tolerant - broad-minded
listless
affected
liberal
ethos
24. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
jettison
lavish
tangential
amalgamate
25. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
wily
dirge
listless
embellish
26. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
rhetoric
eulogy
intransigent
Euphemism
27. Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language
boor
pungent
articulate
gregarious
28. Make impure/debase
archaic
jettison
adulterate
posit
29. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
polemic
sentient
abyss
kindle
30. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
stigma
burnish
permeate
31. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
amalgamate
ingenuous
arbitrate
Keen
32. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
austere
embellish
hermetic
proliferate
33. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
abstain
gregarious
philistine
dirge
34. Frolicsome/ playful
obstinate
tome
pervade
sportive
35. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
chaos
symbiosis
impervious
inundate
36. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
dirge
monotony
terrestrial
tangential
37. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
articulate
wily
pajorative
terrestrial
38. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
wily
dogma
larceny
deface
39. Clever - deceptive
wily
amalgamate
supplant
demagogue
40. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
sportive
prodigal
aerie
dirge
41. An investigation or inquiry
inquest
sully
analogous
paradox
42. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
liberal
antagonize
pervade
statis
43. To choose not to do something
embellish
heterogeneous
abstain
nascent
44. Book - usually large and academic
repose
venerable
audacious
tome
45. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
volatile
imbue
esoteric
apathy
46. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
kindle
invective
convoluted
stratagem
47. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
naiive
enigma
disparate
intrepid
48. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
arbitrary
lament
sportive
rustic
49. To taint or tarnish - besmirch - defile
prodigal
sully
burnish
latent
50. Flamboyant/verve/dash
demagogue
dirge
panache
sentient