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Subjects
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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. Make impure/debase
plucky
adulterate
dogma
esoteric
2. Brilliant/glowing
luminous
aerie
repudiate
venerable
3. To please someone so as to gain an advantage. Ex - ... themselves with the leaders.
lucid
ingratiate
unequivocal
polemic
4. Effective writing or speaking
rhetoric
imbue
statis
Dilate
5. A puzzle - a mystery - conundrum - perplexity
enigma
apathy
zeal
elegy
6. Growing in number quickly/spawn
proliferate
abyss
audacious
kindle
7. Impossible to see through - preventing the passage of light - obscure
intransigent
imbue
aerie
opaque
8. To polish
antagonize
burnish
sully
enigma
9. Philistine/bourgeois/superficial/materialistic
hermetic
assail
boor
Euphemism
10. Ungrateful person - cad - churl
slake
ingrate
imbue
zeal
11. Fresh and clean; uncorrupted ex - A ... beach
dirge
debutante
pristine
veracity
12. The highest point (of something) - zenith - pinnacle
inundate
vestige
acme
nuance
13. Appease/mollify/to soothe or pacify
lavish
aerie
placate
deface
14. Perceptive/sharp
Keen
hermetic
boor
gestation
15. Intricate and complicated - byzantine - labyrinthine - tangled
vestige
coalesce
convoluted
dilettante
16. Stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising - adamant - intransigent - intractable
obstinate
ingratiate
waver
dither
17. Wordy/not succinct/ineloquent
unequivocal
verbose
insurrection
whimsical
18. Pertaining to beauty
inquest
embellish
ingratiate
aesthetic
19. Beliefs or character of a group - ethics - philosophy
ethos
hermetic
convoluted
lucid
20. Fearless - adventurous - audacious - plucky - gallant
intrepid
ingrate
prudence
hermetic
21. Funeral bell/ omen of death
heterogeneous
bombastic
apathy
knell
22. Sway/dither/flutter/fluctuate
erratic
adulterate
panache
vacillate
23. Truthfulness
whimsical
veracity
meticulous
listless
24. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate - meticulous
insurrection
hyperbole
eloquent
innocuous
25. Old/antique/bygone/stale
opaque
Dilate
abstain
archaic
26. Controversy - argument - verbal attack - refutation
polemic
burnish
boor
audacious
27. Altruism/ charity
lucid
philantropy
ingratiate
disparate
28. Self contradictory
hyperbole
paradox
apathy
Amulet
29. Eject/discard like in excess fuel
jettison
larceny
abyss
ethos
30. Set fire/excite
unequivocal
kindle
symbiosis
apathy
31. Bucolic - rural
hermetic
lucid
rustic
tangential
32. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
larceny
amalgamate
hermetic
ambiguous
33. Inertia/standstill/ stagnation
listless
statis
homogenous
kindle
34. Equivalent to - alike - parallel
erratic
burnish
dilettante
analogous
35. Determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
whimsical
elegy
placate
wraith
36. Differing in kind; dissimilar; varied
phalanx
tangential
heterogeneous
wraith
37. Undecorated - stern in appearance - bleak - grim
listless
austere
permeate
itinerant
38. Impossible to penetrate - impregnable
lament
abyss
gestation
impervious
39. Wandering and unpredictable
erratic
veracity
pristine
stigma
40. No variation; tediously the same in sound
panache
monotony
stratagem
dirge
41. Characterized by severe suffering or sorrow - serious or grave
gullible
Dilate
sully
grievous
42. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
Fanatical
latent
hermetic
disparate
43. Meal or mealtime - feast - banquet
repast
Amulet
imbue
dirge
44. Blocked path - dilemma with no solution - cul-de-sac - deadlock - stalemate
statis
impasse
pariah
nascent
45. Express grieve - deplore - bewail
tirade
monotony
lament
verbose
46. Peripheral - irrelevant - digressive - extraneous diverting - inconsequential
hermetic
articulate
gestation
tangential
47. Temporary; lasting a brief time
Fanatical
intransigent
transitory
phalanx
48. Finely sensitive to feelings or in perception. Ex - ... of the danger posed by the approaching hurricane
arbitrary
sentient
venerable
pajorative
49. Extremely generous or extravagant - exuberant - opulent - prodigal - profuse - bombastic
austere
erratic
axiom
lavish
50. Social outcast
judicious
pariah
statis
sentient