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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. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
prudence
venerable
pristine
bombastic
2. Nonsensical talk - specialized language - argot - cant - slang
nascent
jargon
abeyance
tirade
3. Commonplace - everyday occurrence - banal
supplant
pariah
quotidian
prudence
4. Earthbound - commonplace - down-to-earth - tellurian - quotidian
enigma
terrestrial
opaque
ingenuous
5. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
debutante
knell
ambiguous
disparate
6. Influence or domination over
hegemony
vacillate
fallow
itinerant
7. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
nuance
discern
disparate
frugality
8. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
lucid
hyperbole
ingratiate
9. Not controlled by conscience; unscrupulous
lavish
veracity
unconscionable
archaic
10. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
aesthetic
elegy
deface
impervious
11. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
enigma
wraith
heterogeneous
opaque
12. Temporary suppression or suspension - remission - delay
affected
stratagem
bombastic
abeyance
13. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
tome
demagogue
symbiosis
belfry
14. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
dilettante
austere
audacious
hermetic
15. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
nuance
opaque
burnish
ethos
16. To attack or assault - beset
kindle
assail
wily
dogmatic
17. Know or understood by only a few - abstruse - arcane
elegy
enigma
nuance
esoteric
18. Altruism/ charity
explicit
philantropy
innocuous
pariah
19. Pretentious/grandiloquent/pompous
waver
posit
symbiosis
bombastic
20. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
ingenuous
enigma
abeyance
catalyst
21. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
zenith
hyperbole
pervade
eloquent
22. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
tangential
affected
alleviate
jargon
23. A gradual increase or the peak of a gradual increase. Ex - complaints about stifling smog conditions reached a ...
crescendo
amalgamate
aerie
pervade
24. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
assail
impasse
sully
dirge
25. Bucolic - rural
amalgamate
inquest
rustic
insurrection
26. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
hyperbole
sportive
aesthetic
debutante
27. To judge a dispute - adjudge - adjudicate - intervene - referee - rule
fallow
sportive
discern
arbitrate
28. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
jettison
stratagem
unconscionable
Amulet
29. Flamboyant/verve/dash
panache
repast
antagonize
Fanatical
30. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
venerable
gregarious
nuance
acme
31. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
tirade
symbiosis
hyperbole
explicit
32. A subtle expression of meaning or quality - gradation - tone
inundate
nuance
tome
embellish
33. An investigation or inquiry
dogma
overwrought
naiive
inquest
34. Easily aroused
pajorative
volatile
unequivocal
jargon
35. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
hermetic
prudence
slake
articulate
36. Set fire/excite
kindle
unconscionable
assail
Fanatical
37. To expand like a woman in labor
leery
volatile
Dilate
gestation
38. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
veracity
Euphemism
luminous
39. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
hyperbole
aerie
phalanx
dirge
40. Social outcast
knell
Keen
pariah
gullible
41. Excess
impasse
kindle
polemic
plethora
42. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
philistine
affected
connoisseur
catalyst
43. (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious
pajorative
leery
demagogue
ambiguous
44. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
ingratiate
waver
verbose
connoisseur
45. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
affected
zenith
plucky
impasse
46. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
ingrate
philistine
pungent
repast
47. Old/antique/bygone/stale
explicit
terrestrial
archaic
belfry
48. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
verbose
pervade
coalesce
deference
49. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
slake
inundate
erratic
aerie
50. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
jargon
dilettante
slake