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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
Recapitulate
Akin
Contrite
Barbaric
2. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Enervate
Opportunist
Incognito
Circumnavigate
3. Looking inside oneself
Xenophobe
Introspective
Recapitulate
Facetious
4. To make a signature legal
Amicable
Notarize
Articulate
Impeach
5. Innocent; unaware of what's going on
Impromptu
Euro
Heterogeneous
Naïve
6. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Vortex
Heterogeneous
Circumnavigate
Chivalry
7. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Contrite
Gauche
Incognito
Loathe
8. Cheerfully optimistic
Plagiarize
Sanguine
Amicable
Parameter
9. A command; something that must be done
Imperative
Chivalry
Barbaric
Facetious
10. Gloomy
Lugubrious
Nomenclature
Epiphany
Filibuster
11. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Ominous
Equinox
Philosophical
Soliloquy
12. Word for word
Verbatim
Enervate
Suffragist
Vortex
13. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Irony
Nihilism
Destiny
Conspicuous
14. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Filibuster
Parameter
Vortex
Nihilism
15. To make your way around
Circumnavigate
Incontrovertible
Comply
Respiration
16. Beginning or start
Inception
Incontrovertible
Filibuster
Destiny
17. All the same
Opportunist
Proposition
Homogeneous
Articulate
18. Made out of; eg. Wrought iron
Photosynthesis
Loquacious
Homogeneous
Wrought
19. Truly sorry
Auspicious
Homogeneous
Voracious
Contrite
20. A suggested plan
Chromosome
Deleterious
Chivalry
Proposition
21. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Epiphany
Destiny
Zealous
Facetious
22. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Acumen
Plagiarize
Conspicuous
Recapitulate
23. Not planned
Chivalry
Impromptu
Heterogeneous
Amicable
24. Friendly or agreeable
Amicable
Diffident
Imperious
Deleterious
25. Obvious; clearly visible
Impeach
Deleterious
Conspicuous
Circumnavigate
26. To accuse someone (usually an elected official) of improper conduct
Impeach
Filibuster
Homogeneous
Equinox
27. An opportune time; good timing
Sanguine
Auspicious
Kowtow
Lexicon
28. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Hubris
Ostentatious
Plagiarize
Loquacious
29. Being a social butterfly
Impeach
Incontrovertible
Gregarious
Incognito
30. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Surreptitiously
Loquacious
Introspective
Lugubrious
31. Slyness or cleverness
Imperative
Heterogeneous
Chicanery
Wrought
32. A lot of; many
Plethora
Imperious
Vacuous
Loquacious
33. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Notarize
Philosophical
Inception
Irony
34. A complete change
Tempestuous
Conspicuous
Metamorphosis
Loquacious
35. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Ambiguous
Orthography
Hubris
Tempestuous
36. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Lugubrious
Auspicious
Philosophical
Amicable
37. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Euro
Voracious
Gauche
Comply
38. To do as you're told
Comply
Imperative
Lugubrious
Notarize
39. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Bellicose
Notarize
Irony
Kowtow
40. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Hubris
Circumlocution
Plethora
Gauche
41. Empty; vacant
Impeach
Metamorphosis
Epiphany
Vacuous
42. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Articulate
Impromptu
Incontrovertible
Surreptitiously
43. To summarize; recap
Voracious
Parameter
Recapitulate
Bellicose
44. Guideline or boundary
Plagiarize
Deciduous
Surreptitiously
Parameter
45. Proud or overbearing
Photosynthesis
Imperious
Opportunist
Contrite
46. Keen insight or wit
Circumlocution
Conspicuous
Acumen
Inception
47. Very angrily offended
Kowtow
Homogeneous
Orthography
Indignant
48. Mixed - having many different components
Nihilism
Gregarious
Heterogeneous
Wrought
49. Breathing
Vacuous
Zealous
Respiration
Incontrovertible
50. A swirling mass of something (often water)
Irony
Ostentatious
Vortex
Circumlocution