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Challenging Words
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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. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
intransigent
arbitrate
elegy
2. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
panache
slake
debutante
lament
3. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
liberal
grievous
prodigal
invective
4. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
homogenous
Fanatical
repast
volatile
5. A firmly held opinion - especially a religious belief
pariah
judicious
overwrought
dogma
6. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
vestige
abeyance
ingratiate
adulterate
7. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
philistine
slake
bombastic
placate
8. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
frugality
homogenous
ethos
posit
9. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
affected
unequivocal
deface
gregarious
10. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
surly
arbitrary
intractable
impervious
11. To add ornamental or fictitious details - adorn - bedeck - elaborate
plethora
burnish
embellish
prudence
12. Elaborated to excess: overdone - extremely excited: agitated - hectic - frenzied - heated Ex - She became ... when she heard that her child was missing
lament
tangential
tome
overwrought
13. Deep hole
abyss
repudiate
intransigent
abeyance
14. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
ingratiate
invective
hyperbole
inquest
15. Truthfulness
pariah
wraith
veracity
philistine
16. Commute/replace/superceded
posit
assail
supplant
knell
17. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
surly
knell
malleable
vestige
18. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pariah
leery
gregarious
pajorative
19. Wandering and unpredictable
sportive
hermetic
erratic
acme
20. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
unequivocal
pungent
grovel
21. Influence or domination over
inundate
venerable
hegemony
lavish
22. An investigation or inquiry
nascent
inquest
abyss
slake
23. Not harmful or injurious; harmless
hegemony
intractable
innocuous
knell
24. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
hermetic
luminous
lucid
grovel
25. Something bringing change to something else indirectly - impetus - goad - stimulant
catalyst
quotidian
kindle
dilettante
26. Social outcast
demagogue
dirge
pariah
luminous
27. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
Keen
coalesce
elegy
homogenous
28. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
hermetic
imbue
frugality
nuance
29. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
volatile
dogmatic
embellish
quotidian
30. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
Fanatical
fallow
tirade
dilettante
31. Mark of disgrace
catalyst
paradox
stigma
connoisseur
32. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
aerie
lament
jettison
overwrought
33. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
naiive
repose
statis
abstain
34. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
terrestrial
arbitrary
articulate
analogous
35. Turmoil/disorder
overwrought
plucky
chaos
amalgamate
36. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
ingrate
slake
rustic
verbose
37. Excess
unconscionable
hegemony
wily
plethora
38. Tolerant - broad-minded
liberal
whimsical
gestation
Amulet
39. Old/antique/bygone/stale
intractable
rustic
ingrate
archaic
40. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
latent
aerie
whimsical
belfry
41. Submission to another's will; respect; courtesy
nuance
deference
liberal
banal
42. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
liberal
zenith
apathy
overwrought
43. Sociable; fond of the company of others
stratagem
gregarious
slake
axiom
44. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
whimsical
nuance
articulate
alleviate
45. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
banal
ingrate
heterogeneous
hermetic
46. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
enigma
dirge
gregarious
larceny
47. To inspire; to permeate; to fill with a mood or tone - to pervade
disparate
imbue
rustic
ambiguous
48. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
archaic
symbiosis
inquest
amalgamate
49. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
prudence
banal
tangential
verbose
50. Bourgeois/ vulgarian/ boor/ materialistic not appreciating artistic or intellectual value
gullible
gestation
philistine
tirade