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