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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. Empty; vacant
Nomenclature
Lugubrious
Vacuous
Deciduous
2. Currency used in many European countries
Plethora
Euro
Gregarious
Proposition
3. All the same
Recapitulate
Impromptu
Homogeneous
Naïve
4. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Bellicose
Nihilism
Voracious
Wrought
5. Crude - violent - untamed
Lugubrious
Acumen
Barbaric
Impromptu
6. To make your way around
Naïve
Circumnavigate
Photosynthesis
Articulate
7. In disguise
Chivalry
Incognito
Verbatim
Circumlocution
8. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Xenophobe
Suffragist
Indignant
Plethora
9. Not planned
Respiration
Contrite
Introspective
Impromptu
10. Full of devotion or passion for something
Homogeneous
Zealous
Notarize
Plethora
11. Truly sorry
Facetious
Proposition
Contrite
Euro
12. A complete change
Homogeneous
Conspicuous
Metamorphosis
Recapitulate
13. Mixed - having many different components
Impeach
Heterogeneous
Impromptu
Surreptitiously
14. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Soliloquy
Circumnavigate
Nihilism
Filibuster
15. Beginning or start
Naïve
Inception
Irony
Photosynthesis
16. Looking inside oneself
Inception
Introspective
Soliloquy
Irony
17. The opposite of confident
Deciduous
Deleterious
Diffident
Facetious
18. Related to or alike
Plethora
Incontrovertible
Akin
Lexicon
19. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Equinox
Ominous
Philosophical
Hubris
20. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Deciduous
Plethora
Circumlocution
Deleterious
21. Friendly or agreeable
Heterogeneous
Destiny
Amicable
Facetious
22. Slyness or cleverness
Articulate
Impeach
Loquacious
Chicanery
23. A suggested plan
Ominous
Lexicon
Proposition
Bellicose
24. To accuse someone (usually an elected official) of improper conduct
Loathe
Introspective
Impeach
Voracious
25. A command; something that must be done
Imperative
Tempestuous
Lugubrious
Irony
26. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Proposition
Chicanery
Deciduous
Chivalry
27. A person who fights for voting rights
Vortex
Filibuster
Xenophobe
Suffragist
28. Cheerfully optimistic
Irony
Ominous
Equinox
Sanguine
29. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Philosophical
Verbatim
Introspective
Zealous
30. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Articulate
Circumnavigate
Akin
Acumen
31. Plants getting energy from sunlight
Sanguine
Equinox
Gregarious
Photosynthesis
32. Very angrily offended
Sanguine
Indignant
Suffragist
Bellicose
33. Correct writing and/or spelling
Recapitulate
Contrite
Orthography
Ambiguous
34. To intensely dislike; hate
Circumnavigate
Loathe
Impromptu
Chicanery
35. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Soliloquy
Circumlocution
Voracious
Lugubrious
36. Proud or overbearing
Gregarious
Inception
Incognito
Imperious
37. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Epiphany
Bellicose
Circumnavigate
Voracious
38. Being a social butterfly
Imperative
Gauche
Gregarious
Hubris
39. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Equinox
Ambiguous
Ominous
Ostentatious
40. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Destiny
Hubris
Incontrovertible
Incognito
41. Obvious; clearly visible
Nihilism
Notarize
Proposition
Conspicuous
42. To make a signature legal
Photosynthesis
Tempestuous
Lugubrious
Notarize
43. One who seeks an opportunity
Tempestuous
Vacuous
Contrite
Opportunist
44. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Kowtow
Conspicuous
Xenophobe
Comply
45. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Bellicose
Voracious
Filibuster
Chromosome
46. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Photosynthesis
Kowtow
Facetious
Ostentatious
47. Keen insight or wit
Acumen
Tempestuous
Vacuous
Suffragist
48. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Kowtow
Homogeneous
Ambiguous
Articulate
49. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Kowtow
Inception
Circumlocution
Lexicon
50. A lot of; many
Surreptitiously
Plethora
Soliloquy
Diffident