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DSST World Literature Vocab
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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. Ripened before time; prematurely developed - as a precocious child.
hyperglycemia
amorphous
precocious
commiserate
2. Change form or shape
metamorphosis
ambiguity
ambiguous
credence
3. Words together; a form of argument or reasoning consisiting of two sentences and a conclusion drawn from them.
syllogism
antecedent
impede
propensity
4. A person who recieves benefit
beneficiary
contradict
hyperbole
endemic
5. To come - go - or exist before in time - order - rank - or position
disparity
commiserate
precede
apathy
6. A line carried around; the outer boundary line around a circular area
veritable
circumference
impervious
enervate
7. To run together; to agree
apathy
empathy
euphemism
concur
8. Difference; unlikeness
philanthropist
hyperglycemia
predict
disparity
9. Belief; acceptance as true
ebullient
credence
beneficiary
missive
10. A letter or message sent
monotheism
precedent
autocracy
missive
11. A line equally distant at all points from the North and South Poles
panorama
autocracy
euphoria
equator
12. Excess of sugar in the blood
malicious
predict
hyperglycemia
ecology
13. Native to a particular people or country
ebullient
posterity
endemic
ambivalence
14. The birth or coming into being of anything;origin;creation
beneficiary
fidelity
genesis
recluse
15. Reasonable; fair - just
atheist
equitable
benevolence
phobia
16. A putting together; the combining of seperate elements into a whole.
synthesis
autocracy
amorphous
postpone
17. Measured together; having both sides exactly alike
equator
etymology
symmetrical
current
18. A person one struggles against
ambivalence
antagonist
autocracy
advocate
19. Fear or hatred of strangers - foreigners - or aliens
topography
coherent
xenophobia
credulous
20. The branch of language study dealing with speech sounds and their symbols
subversive
phonetics
subjugate
genesis
21. To sympathize
trilogy
ambivalence
philanthropist
commiserate
22. A detailed drawing (writing on a map of the surface features of a region)
topography
sedentary
pandemic
equator
23. Someone who does not know that God exists
precedent
credible
agnostic
equitable
24. Faithfulness
fidelity
excursion
metamorphosis
postpone
25. The quality of having two meanings
etymology
infidel
ambiguity
current
26. One who goes by foot; commonplace or dull
pedestrian
euphemism
genial
circumvent
27. To call out; to call forth as memories or feelings.
equator
verify
evoke
amorphous
28. The part of earth extending from the crust to the outer atmosphere in which things live
trilogy
biosphere
circumference
atheist (Andrew Jensen/William Kelemen definition)
29. A person sent on a specific mission
emissary
autopsy
genocide
subversive
30. Those who come after; future generations
profusion
posterity
benign
verify
31. Feeling as if you were in the other person's place
pandemic
apathy
empathy
efface
32. Three literary - drmatic - or musial compositions that - though complete in itself - form a related series
phobia
antecedent
trilogy
monopoly
33. Irrational fear of a thing or situation
infidel
odometer
phobia
misanthrope
34. True; actual
veritable
recluse
disparity
impervious
35. To take before - to realize beforehand
coherent
biosphere
revise
anticipate
36. To remove the face of; to wipe out
philosopher
circumference
efface
missive
37. Choice of words in speaking or writing
excursion
verify
diction
ambiguous
38. Fond of eating - drinking - and being sociable together
convivial
trilogy
commiserate
empathy
39. To prove something is true
verify
precocious
genocide
cacaphony
40. The belief that there is only one God
monotheism
pedestrian
antiquated
panorama
41. Not arrayed or arranged properly; a state of disorder or confusion; disorderly dress
malevolent
malicious
synchronize
disarray
42. To continue
procede
panorama
ecology
antiquity
43. People rule; government by representatives chosen by the people
circumspect
credence
trilogy
democracy
44. One who lives shut back from the world
genesis
recluse
benevolence
sedentary
45. Not faithful; a person who does not believe in a particular religion
recluse
infidel
precede
consummate
46. To cause to operate (keep time) in unison
philanthropy
euphemism
xenophobia
synchronize
47. So old as to no longer be useful
philanthropy
odometer
profusion
antiquated
48. Something that logically comes before another
ecology
antecedent
phonetics
consummate
49. The right of self government
contradict
autonomy
consummate
biosphere
50. Marrying one person while legally married to another
ambivalence
bigamy
philanthropist
hyperbole