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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. Crude - violent - untamed
Inception
Gauche
Barbaric
Heterogeneous
2. One who seeks an opportunity
Opportunist
Chivalry
Sanguine
Destiny
3. To make your way around
Circumnavigate
Photosynthesis
Destiny
Filibuster
4. Not planned
Destiny
Ominous
Xenophobe
Impromptu
5. Very angrily offended
Indignant
Chromosome
Conspicuous
Imperious
6. Beginning or start
Inception
Nomenclature
Deleterious
Auspicious
7. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Heterogeneous
Equinox
Ambiguous
Circumlocution
8. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Wrought
Opportunist
Notarize
Plagiarize
9. Slyness or cleverness
Chicanery
Plagiarize
Akin
Lugubrious
10. Stormy or turbulent
Wrought
Chivalry
Auspicious
Tempestuous
11. Guideline or boundary
Respiration
Bellicose
Heterogeneous
Parameter
12. Plants getting energy from sunlight
Contrite
Parameter
Photosynthesis
Chivalry
13. To make a signature legal
Notarize
Chivalry
Lugubrious
Enervate
14. Empty; vacant
Vacuous
Barbaric
Deciduous
Plagiarize
15. Gloomy
Plethora
Lugubrious
Barbaric
Nomenclature
16. Word for word
Circumlocution
Loquacious
Loathe
Verbatim
17. Obvious; clearly visible
Metamorphosis
Plethora
Circumnavigate
Conspicuous
18. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Euro
Hubris
Barbaric
Soliloquy
19. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Vortex
Zealous
Chromosome
Enervate
20. A command; something that must be done
Respiration
Gregarious
Imperative
Xenophobe
21. Looking inside oneself
Diffident
Introspective
Notarize
Euro
22. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Recapitulate
Destiny
Nihilism
Bellicose
23. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Deciduous
Irony
Verbatim
Diffident
24. Mixed - having many different components
Inception
Auspicious
Heterogeneous
Chicanery
25. A lot of; many
Plethora
Verbatim
Tempestuous
Incognito
26. To intensely dislike; hate
Heterogeneous
Xenophobe
Loathe
Notarize
27. In disguise
Incognito
Respiration
Inception
Homogeneous
28. A person who fights for voting rights
Suffragist
Plethora
Introspective
Destiny
29. Friendly or agreeable
Wrought
Introspective
Xenophobe
Amicable
30. Talkative
Inception
Barbaric
Loquacious
Irony
31. Currency used in many European countries
Gregarious
Epiphany
Lugubrious
Euro
32. An opportune time; good timing
Auspicious
Soliloquy
Deciduous
Vacuous
33. Truly sorry
Chicanery
Circumlocution
Contrite
Naïve
34. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Irony
Lexicon
Barbaric
Circumnavigate
35. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Xenophobe
Ominous
Gauche
Inception
36. Proud or overbearing
Deciduous
Nomenclature
Philosophical
Imperious
37. Cheerfully optimistic
Voracious
Amicable
Ominous
Sanguine
38. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Surreptitiously
Inception
Deciduous
Xenophobe
39. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Soliloquy
Lexicon
Articulate
Epiphany
40. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Deciduous
Chromosome
Epiphany
Notarize
41. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Vortex
Nomenclature
Barbaric
Diffident
42. A suggested plan
Imperious
Contrite
Notarize
Proposition
43. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Ostentatious
Diffident
Respiration
Sanguine
44. Made out of; eg. Wrought iron
Auspicious
Notarize
Chicanery
Wrought
45. To do as you're told
Recapitulate
Comply
Heterogeneous
Metamorphosis
46. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Respiration
Ominous
Introspective
Voracious
47. Breathing
Incontrovertible
Respiration
Chromosome
Chivalry
48. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Homogeneous
Soliloquy
Voracious
Orthography
49. Correct writing and/or spelling
Orthography
Conspicuous
Sanguine
Verbatim
50. Harmful
Orthography
Photosynthesis
Deleterious
Amicable