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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. Uncompromising - refusing to reconcile - obstinate - stubborn - intractable
coalesce
dirge
panache
intransigent
2. Rebellion - mutiny
insurrection
pariah
Dilate
stigma
3. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
transitory
dilettante
wily
advocate
4. Brilliant/glowing
adulterate
panache
arbitrate
luminous
5. Easily aroused
opaque
Keen
surly
volatile
6. Clever - deceptive
gregarious
wily
ingenuous
inundate
7. Having bad connotation - disparaging - belittling - insulting
pungent
polemic
listless
pajorative
8. Ornament against evil/talisman/fetish
jargon
articulate
Amulet
plucky
9. Fluctuate between choices - to dither - vacillate - oscillate
waver
slake
lucid
lament
10. A ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death - apparition - bogeyman - phantasm
wraith
abeyance
grievous
polemic
11. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
philistine
wraith
alleviate
austere
12. Relaxation - tranquility
symbiosis
opaque
repose
permeate
13. Clear and easily understood - limpid - intelligible
explicit
hermetic
philantropy
lucid
14. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
statis
paradox
convoluted
nascent
15. To anger - to provoke - incite - vex - or pester
adulterate
liberal
antagonize
articulate
16. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
eulogy
connoisseur
belfry
hermetic
17. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
esoteric
debutante
gullible
nascent
18. Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.. opposite of euphemism possibly
stigma
affected
rhetoric
invective
19. Absolute - certain - explicit - categorical
unequivocal
repast
verbose
debutante
20. An expert in matters of culture - food - or wine
slake
connoisseur
kindle
dirge
21. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
latent
plucky
posit
enigma
22. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
Keen
itinerant
grievous
ingrate
23. Lacking energy or enthusiasm - lethargic - indolent - languid - like ready in spanish
surly
aerie
listless
jettison
24. Make impure/debase
adulterate
ethos
discern
Keen
25. To perceive or recognize
philantropy
zenith
discern
judicious
26. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
adulterate
disparate
itinerant
ethos
27. Turmoil/disorder
transitory
chaos
deference
arbitrary
28. Bell tower - room where bell is hung - steeple - spire
knell
belfry
adulterate
Keen
29. Clearly and directly stated - opposite of implicit
aerie
assail
tangential
explicit
30. To choose not to do something
abstain
listless
affected
impervious
31. Bucolic - rural
rustic
veracity
aerie
luminous
32. Easily deceived - credulous - naiive - ingenguous
monotony
gullible
wily
surly
33. Book - usually large and academic
slake
stratagem
tome
veracity
34. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
apathy
ambiguous
explicit
intrepid
35. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
permeate
alleviate
stratagem
sully
36. A compact or close knit body of people or animals or things - legion
Keen
pristine
phalanx
repast
37. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
arbitrate
chaos
dither
pajorative
38. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
slake
vestige
deface
coalesce
39. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
pristine
banal
boor
rustic
40. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
Amulet
antagonize
nuance
41. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
apathy
aerie
intrepid
arbitrate
42. Dirge - lament - a sorrowful speech or poem
gregarious
Dilate
elegy
overwrought
43. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
fallow
tome
discern
gestation
44. Assuage - relieve - to make more bearable - placate
stratagem
austere
dilettante
alleviate
45. Commute/replace/superceded
gregarious
tangential
supplant
esoteric
46. Effective writing or speaking
larceny
transitory
rhetoric
proliferate
47. Suggest - propose an explanation
repudiate
wraith
volatile
posit
48. High secluded place - a nest built high in the air; an elevated - often secluded - dwelling
panache
listless
aerie
philantropy
49. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
pajorative
slake
debutante
acme
50. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
liberal
intractable
wily
impasse