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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. Truly sorry
Imperative
Contrite
Voracious
Lugubrious
2. Craving or consuming large quantities (food - books - collectibles)
Chicanery
Incontrovertible
Vortex
Voracious
3. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Chivalry
Loquacious
Photosynthesis
Impeach
4. To do as you're told
Comply
Articulate
Akin
Facetious
5. Equal parts day and night; occurs twice yearly (autumnal & vernal)
Facetious
Equinox
Impromptu
Xenophobe
6. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Soliloquy
Zealous
Filibuster
Conspicuous
7. Cheerfully optimistic
Sanguine
Voracious
Hubris
Proposition
8. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Plagiarize
Hubris
Facetious
Deciduous
9. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Akin
Epiphany
Nomenclature
Surreptitiously
10. A command; something that must be done
Nihilism
Introspective
Bellicose
Imperative
11. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Lexicon
Philosophical
Acumen
Heterogeneous
12. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Kowtow
Irony
Epiphany
Facetious
13. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Filibuster
Gauche
Voracious
Wrought
14. Gloomy
Surreptitiously
Gauche
Lugubrious
Homogeneous
15. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Gauche
Respiration
Nihilism
Plethora
16. To accuse someone (usually an elected official) of improper conduct
Contrite
Epiphany
Impeach
Naïve
17. One who seeks an opportunity
Opportunist
Imperious
Zealous
Chicanery
18. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Voracious
Ominous
Suffragist
Lexicon
19. Word for word
Contrite
Verbatim
Circumlocution
Barbaric
20. Mixed - having many different components
Akin
Gauche
Heterogeneous
Ambiguous
21. A person who fights for voting rights
Euro
Vacuous
Suffragist
Inception
22. The opposite of confident
Nihilism
Parameter
Diffident
Tempestuous
23. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Ambiguous
Euro
Destiny
Conspicuous
24. Keen insight or wit
Zealous
Circumlocution
Acumen
Respiration
25. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Kowtow
Bellicose
Ostentatious
Imperious
26. All the same
Homogeneous
Loathe
Heterogeneous
Bellicose
27. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Vortex
Xenophobe
Epiphany
Sanguine
28. Related to or alike
Acumen
Akin
Ambiguous
Articulate
29. 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
Deciduous
Circumnavigate
Proposition
30. A suggested plan
Diffident
Equinox
Deleterious
Proposition
31. In disguise
Xenophobe
Barbaric
Lexicon
Incognito
32. Made out of; eg. Wrought iron
Wrought
Ostentatious
Xenophobe
Notarize
33. Stormy or turbulent
Equinox
Metamorphosis
Tempestuous
Deciduous
34. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Tempestuous
Articulate
Nomenclature
Deleterious
35. Empty; vacant
Circumlocution
Diffident
Vacuous
Philosophical
36. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Plethora
Vortex
Bellicose
Ambiguous
37. Breathing
Epiphany
Incontrovertible
Opportunist
Respiration
38. To summarize; recap
Lexicon
Recapitulate
Respiration
Ambiguous
39. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Irony
Vortex
Facetious
Incognito
40. Harmful
Sanguine
Comply
Deleterious
Kowtow
41. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Wrought
Gauche
Chromosome
Comply
42. An opportune time; good timing
Diffident
Verbatim
Chivalry
Auspicious
43. Obvious; clearly visible
Chivalry
Incontrovertible
Vacuous
Conspicuous
44. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Circumlocution
Lexicon
Suffragist
Incognito
45. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Ambiguous
Articulate
Facetious
Inception
46. Crude - violent - untamed
Barbaric
Epiphany
Deleterious
Euro
47. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Introspective
Nomenclature
Imperious
Opportunist
48. To intensely dislike; hate
Loathe
Comply
Indignant
Barbaric
49. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Chromosome
Nomenclature
Enervate
Incontrovertible
50. Beginning or start
Gregarious
Inception
Ambiguous
Epiphany