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Power Vocab
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Subject
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english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Correct writing and/or spelling
Facetious
Orthography
Photosynthesis
Chromosome
2. Friendly or agreeable
Deleterious
Auspicious
Amicable
Impromptu
3. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Lexicon
Suffragist
Homogeneous
Sanguine
4. To make your way around
Diffident
Philosophical
Euro
Circumnavigate
5. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Chicanery
Xenophobe
Enervate
Gregarious
6. Innocent; unaware of what's going on
Incontrovertible
Destiny
Naïve
Vortex
7. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Facetious
Impromptu
Chromosome
Respiration
8. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Impromptu
Loathe
Philosophical
Akin
9. One who seeks an opportunity
Circumlocution
Loathe
Lugubrious
Opportunist
10. To make a signature legal
Bellicose
Destiny
Vacuous
Notarize
11. Slyness or cleverness
Chicanery
Zealous
Comply
Suffragist
12. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Plethora
Metamorphosis
Conspicuous
Surreptitiously
13. Obvious; clearly visible
Vacuous
Philosophical
Conspicuous
Voracious
14. Being a social butterfly
Proposition
Ambiguous
Wrought
Gregarious
15. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Conspicuous
Voracious
Filibuster
Chivalry
16. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Zealous
Comply
Enervate
Nihilism
17. A swirling mass of something (often water)
Lexicon
Irony
Introspective
Vortex
18. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Irony
Epiphany
Diffident
Xenophobe
19. Looking inside oneself
Introspective
Notarize
Recapitulate
Chivalry
20. Harmful
Respiration
Deleterious
Incontrovertible
Acumen
21. Currency used in many European countries
Circumlocution
Euro
Loquacious
Contrite
22. All the same
Ominous
Plagiarize
Homogeneous
Orthography
23. A person who fights for voting rights
Nihilism
Suffragist
Inception
Nomenclature
24. Crude - violent - untamed
Ambiguous
Barbaric
Deciduous
Surreptitiously
25. Full of devotion or passion for something
Conspicuous
Equinox
Zealous
Lexicon
26. Beginning or start
Inception
Euro
Impeach
Incognito
27. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Conspicuous
Xenophobe
Articulate
Nomenclature
28. Stormy or turbulent
Tempestuous
Enervate
Philosophical
Bellicose
29. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Chromosome
Plagiarize
Vortex
Incognito
30. Without controversy; you can't argue about it
Proposition
Incontrovertible
Metamorphosis
Naïve
31. In disguise
Vacuous
Incognito
Lugubrious
Barbaric
32. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Ominous
Epiphany
Bellicose
Vacuous
33. To do as you're told
Comply
Opportunist
Voracious
Gauche
34. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Euro
Nihilism
Kowtow
Opportunist
35. A suggested plan
Proposition
Impromptu
Gauche
Notarize
36. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Ostentatious
Comply
Diffident
Nihilism
37. Empty; vacant
Vacuous
Orthography
Ambiguous
Kowtow
38. Breathing
Loathe
Naïve
Respiration
Euro
39. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Ambiguous
Metamorphosis
Filibuster
Diffident
40. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Metamorphosis
Imperative
Voracious
Indignant
41. Word for word
Suffragist
Impeach
Verbatim
Diffident
42. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Plagiarize
Heterogeneous
Vacuous
Lugubrious
43. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Chivalry
Proposition
Deciduous
Ostentatious
44. Cheerfully optimistic
Chromosome
Ostentatious
Sanguine
Introspective
45. Truly sorry
Circumnavigate
Contrite
Tempestuous
Diffident
46. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Notarize
Nomenclature
Incontrovertible
Heterogeneous
47. Mixed - having many different components
Soliloquy
Akin
Heterogeneous
Loquacious
48. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Destiny
Imperative
Loquacious
Bellicose
49. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Philosophical
Gauche
Circumlocution
Akin
50. To intensely dislike; hate
Loathe
Nihilism
Inception
Surreptitiously