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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Central Park was bathed in ______ sunshine during the day and festivities.
Solecism
Winsome
Luminous
Archaic
2. The salubrious mother is ______ - as younger generations of soon-to-be parents respect her devotion to her family and health.
Ameliorate
Vacillate
Estimable
Ignoble
3. It became ______ that his reason for playing basketball was to become in better shape in order to touch the rim: others noticed his attempts to jump high during warm-ups.
Idiosyncrasy
Ostensible
Gullible
Tawdry
4. Fernandino has such _____ in his flamboyant style of soccer play.
Proliferate
Panache
Variegated
Salubrious
5. The clever girl is _______ - this makes it difficult to see her in a compassionate light.
Mercurial
Estimable
Accretion
Convoluted
6. The strongly religious couple joined the Church of Scientology and cut themselves off from the ______ family members: this pissed of many.
Panache
Impious
Esoteric
Exonerate
7. The stone masons are considered to be a ______: they are an intimate group with a similar purpose.
Coterie
Exonerate
Lionize
Ignoble
8. The number of team began to ______ each season - going from 80 players to now over 130.
Proliferate
Ostensible
Numismatics
Parley
9. The students complained about the difficulty of following the professors ______ ideas and theories.
Impious
Convoluted
Venerable
Whimsical
10. The _____ between the ignoble leader and the lionized leader drew strong press coverage.
Esoteric
Parley
Hapless
Estimable
11. The ball hitting her bruise resulted in an ______ in the size of the bruise.
Accretion
Erudite
Ameliorate
Gullible
12. The tawdry athlete dropped the ego - this became _____ when he hadn'T been in the headlines with any notable erratic behavior for many years.
Zealot
Salient
Whimsical
Eschew
13. Hot tea with honey is a ________ remedy for a sore throat as it is used throughout the continents.
Anachronism
Ignoble
Listless
Catholic
14. Often times business people may use verbose sales pitches to confuse ______ customers.
Impious
Gullible
Whimsical
Verbose
15. After garnering fire wood - the enthusiastic son _____ the excess bark for later use in making a wood cabin.
Convoluted
Catholic
Salubrious
Pare
16. The paper became too _____ for the listless reader to finish reading the twenty page essay.
Verbose
Gullible
Convoluted
Ignoble
17. The old timer is called ______ by his teenage son for using a computer from 1999.
Garner
Coterie
Impious
Archaic
18. The young adult has a passion for _____ as he has collected over one thousand variegated coins.
Numismatics
Salubrious
Hapless
Ameliorate
19. The _____ team is an enigma to the fast junk foods marketing push towards young people.
Salubrious
Enigma
Parley
Catholic
20. It is the college _____ that a student should take general education classes.
Parley
Ameliorate
Ethos
Impious
21. The ghetto teen wore ______ jewelry. This was seen as gaudy - cheap and showy.
Tawdry
Convoluted
Solecism
Ameliorate
22. After running for 5 hours - against human physics - they were not _____ - however energetic and enthusiastic for their accomplishment.
Anachronism
Archaic
Listless
Exacerbate
23. The wannabe cute girls use their _______ charm to meet celebrities.
Verbose
Winsome
Ameliorate
Convoluted
24. The erratic lady at the library stepped up her game by - still albeit ______ - adding humor into her routine of voluble speech.
Mercurial
Salubrious
Whimsical
Proliferate
25. The coach went on a ______ against the listless player who has exacerbated the quality of practice due to his tawdry behavior.
Archaic
Idiosyncrasy
Estimable
Diatribe
26. The enthusiastic son ran to _____ wood for his families camp fire.
Accretion
Garner
Zealot
Archaic
27. Often times as a decision maker it is important to not be ______ - even if a deadlines is soon approaching - some thought is necessary.
Erudite
Limpid
Ostensible
Impetuous
28. The coterie is an intimate _____ of people with a common goal.
Pare
Bevy
Listless
Salubrious
29. The ______ t-shirt of the Hawaiian style has not become an anachronism - even in the midst of being used catholicly for themed parties year after year.
Furtive
Variegated
Winsome
Exacerbate
30. Noel was able to ______ mom'S shoulder pain using massage techniques learnt in medical school. This improved her arm strength.
Salient
Ameliorate
Parley
Anachronism
31. The mother ______ between choosing a restaurant her significant other wanted to eat and a restaurant her son wanted to eat.
Proliferate
Vacillate
Exacerbate
Erratic
32. She began to feel like her wisdom was becoming an archaic - until others called her the _______ oracle.
Accretion
Diatribe
Gullible
Venerable
33. In hiking - the young group of friends like to take an _____ route versus the crowded simple paths.
Aberrant
Estimable
Lionize
Erudite
34. The homeless lady at the school is considered to be mentally ______ as she wanders and is unpredictable in the library.
Exacerbate
Garner
Erratic
Ethos
35. The position of defensive back has such detailed footwork and coverage details - it is ______ in the world of athletics.
Esoteric
Estimable
Ostensible
Catholic
36. The thief is considered to be _______. It will take time for him to repent and grow values which take others into consideration.
Ignoble
Parley
Exacerbate
Enigma
37. The thoroughly maintained pond is ______: visitors can see to the bottom.
Salient
Limpid
Proliferate
Erratic
38. After a successful season - and often time after one successful game - a player may be ______ by parents - teammates - and fans.
Convoluted
Aberrant
Lionize
Mercurial
39. He knows not exactly what to major or set his career path on - but he is _____ in respects to his studies.
Winsome
Exonerate
Erudite
Erratic
40. Her idiosyncratic behavior is an _______ to hundreds of curious undergraduates.
Erudite
Ignoble
Whimsical
Enigma
41. The coach ______ the use of steroids and would be disappointed to learn of any players using steroids.
Ostensible
Eschew
Impious
Garner
42. At the homeless shelter - some are their because they are simply _____ - others mentally ill - others going for free food because of being poor with large families.
Hapless
Eschew
Bevy
Zealot
43. After ameliorating his moms pain in her shoulder - the medical student _______ himself for not being their to treat it right away.
Exacerbate
Salubrious
Exonerate
Erratic
44. Instead of ameliorating the pain - the untrained medical student ______ the injury.
Variegated
Garner
Accretion
Exacerbate
45. Kids often speak with ________. "I wanna do dat".
Exonerate
Solecism
Diatribe
Tawdry
46. Snakes _____ their skin - leaving it behind on the hot concrete.
Erratic
Vacillate
Coterie
Molt
47. Coaches are ______ to the cause of forming a respectable and passion driven team.
Zealot
Idiosyncrasy
Vacillate
Erudite
48. The erratic lady is also an _______ to the quite study bevy next to her.
Erudite
Eschew
Erratic
Idiosyncrasy
49. The archaic fashion of bell bottoms is also an _______ to be worn in the 21st Century.
Diatribe
Anachronism
Idiosyncrasy
Zealot
50. She was _____ when she secretly peered out of the corner of her eye to view the romantic couple.
Panache
Furtive
Erratic
Exacerbate