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