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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
lavish
slake
paradox
alleviate
2. Speech in praise of someone - laud - extol - commend
sentient
gregarious
eulogy
vacillate
3. Temporary; lasting a brief time
arbitrary
audacious
austere
transitory
4. To grow together and form a single whole - amalgamate - fuse - condense
coalesce
eulogy
aesthetic
lucid
5. To choose not to do something
abstain
unequivocal
transitory
verbose
6. Airtight; secret; obscure; magical; mysterious
rustic
lavish
veracity
hermetic
7. Clever - deceptive
alleviate
wily
plethora
chaos
8. Purposeful exaggeration for effect - embellishment - inflation
hyperbole
ingrate
inundate
unconscionable
9. Rude and bad-tempered - grumpy
placate
surly
overwrought
symbiosis
10. Sociable; fond of the company of others
demagogue
gregarious
stratagem
sportive
11. Respected because of age
venerable
gregarious
arbitrary
abstain
12. Altruism/ charity
Euphemism
dilettante
supplant
philantropy
13. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
tome
placate
grievous
abyss
14. To act confusedly or without a purpose - waver - falter - hesitate - vacillate
nascent
dither
impasse
ingenuous
15. Humble oneself in a demeaning way - cringe - fawn - toady - kowtow - bootlick
symbiosis
banal
leery
grovel
16. Point of culmination/ pinnacle/ acme
axiom
zenith
eloquent
grievous
17. Cooperation - mutual helpfulness - interdependence
eloquent
polemic
symbiosis
intractable
18. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
axiom
stratagem
veracity
arbitrary
19. Commute/replace/superceded
supplant
jettison
phalanx
burnish
20. Extreme devotion/frenzied/zealous
Fanatical
pristine
inundate
ingratiate
21. A trace of something that once was present
verbose
plucky
homogenous
vestige
22. Brilliant/glowing
luminous
prodigal
enigma
wily
23. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
vacillate
insurrection
terrestrial
affected
24. Suggest - propose an explanation
hermetic
belfry
posit
gestation
25. Imbue - permeate - penetrate - suffuse
listless
monotony
Keen
pervade
26. Growth process from conception to birth - pregnancy - gravidity
gestation
convoluted
zenith
embellish
27. Bucolic - rural
monotony
Fanatical
austere
rustic
28. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
analogous
placate
dogma
deference
29. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
transitory
dilettante
wily
pariah
30. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
transitory
meticulous
Amulet
sentient
31. Self-evident truth - adage - maxim - apothegm
hermetic
kindle
axiom
coalesce
32. Book - usually large and academic
eloquent
polemic
vestige
tome
33. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
impasse
rhetoric
inquest
pervade
34. Growing in number quickly/spawn
meticulous
paradox
knell
proliferate
35. Caution/thrift/widom
prudence
hegemony
deface
venerable
36. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
demagogue
symbiosis
analogous
philantropy
37. Not apparent/dormant/quiescent/inert like hidden energy
gregarious
latent
zeal
vestige
38. Long harsh speech or verbal attack - diatribe - fulmination - harangue - vilification - obloquy
larceny
tirade
pristine
banal
39. Tending to be thrifty or cheap - prudence - sparing - parsimony
frugality
grievous
hegemony
disparate
40. Deep hole
Dilate
hegemony
wraith
abyss
41. To calm down or moderate - to temperate - quench - satisfy
judicious
ambiguous
unconscionable
slake
42. Using an inoffensive word instead of an offensive one
rhetoric
grievous
Euphemism
jargon
43. To injure or destroy the surface or appearance of; to damage the value - influence - or effect of; to face down - outshine
enigma
vestige
deface
intransigent
44. Consistent/uniform in composition/ opposite of heterogeneous
ingratiate
homogenous
quotidian
unequivocal
45. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
jettison
repose
acme
tangential
46. Truthfulness
convoluted
veracity
antagonize
affected
47. To penetrate through spaces; to spread throughout - imbue - pervade
ingrate
banal
permeate
ambiguous
48. A woman making a debut in high society/lady
ambiguous
abstain
dirge
debutante
49. Self contradictory
paradox
sully
aerie
rhetoric
50. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
advocate
transitory
apathy
verbose