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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. Full of devotion or passion for something
Sanguine
Chicanery
Zealous
Equinox
2. A suggested plan
Introspective
Nomenclature
Nihilism
Proposition
3. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Facetious
Plethora
Barbaric
Bellicose
4. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Surreptitiously
Gauche
Notarize
Chicanery
5. To summarize; recap
Euro
Vortex
Equinox
Recapitulate
6. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Articulate
Photosynthesis
Epiphany
Sanguine
7. Related to or alike
Vacuous
Akin
Naïve
Chivalry
8. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Lexicon
Photosynthesis
Nihilism
Philosophical
9. A lot of; many
Kowtow
Imperious
Plethora
Verbatim
10. All the same
Bellicose
Contrite
Incognito
Homogeneous
11. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Impromptu
Impeach
Kowtow
Ostentatious
12. A person who fights for voting rights
Suffragist
Orthography
Impeach
Ominous
13. To take/copy something from another person and claim it as your own work or not give credit to the person who created it
Articulate
Plethora
Plagiarize
Imperative
14. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Lugubrious
Nihilism
Impeach
Facetious
15. Guideline or boundary
Kowtow
Contrite
Parameter
Wrought
16. To intensely dislike; hate
Loathe
Gauche
Heterogeneous
Auspicious
17. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Nomenclature
Articulate
Vacuous
Hubris
18. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Comply
Kowtow
Suffragist
Surreptitiously
19. Not planned
Articulate
Impromptu
Destiny
Plagiarize
20. Keen insight or wit
Opportunist
Indignant
Acumen
Respiration
21. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Gregarious
Vortex
Hubris
Notarize
22. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Plethora
Epiphany
Ominous
Wrought
23. The opposite of confident
Incognito
Inception
Circumlocution
Diffident
24. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Plagiarize
Barbaric
Lexicon
Ambiguous
25. To make your way around
Deciduous
Circumnavigate
Impeach
Deleterious
26. Obvious; clearly visible
Conspicuous
Euro
Philosophical
Gauche
27. Word for word
Deleterious
Verbatim
Equinox
Akin
28. Beginning or start
Heterogeneous
Euro
Inception
Xenophobe
29. To do as you're told
Gregarious
Orthography
Comply
Philosophical
30. Correct writing and/or spelling
Impromptu
Plethora
Orthography
Recapitulate
31. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Lexicon
Incognito
Soliloquy
Gauche
32. Empty; vacant
Indignant
Circumnavigate
Impeach
Vacuous
33. Equal parts day and night; occurs twice yearly (autumnal & vernal)
Vortex
Photosynthesis
Equinox
Nomenclature
34. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Euro
Barbaric
Tempestuous
Filibuster
35. Cheerfully optimistic
Suffragist
Plagiarize
Sanguine
Incontrovertible
36. Very angrily offended
Lugubrious
Soliloquy
Indignant
Respiration
37. Slyness or cleverness
Chicanery
Nomenclature
Enervate
Bellicose
38. Harmful
Deleterious
Incognito
Impeach
Euro
39. A command; something that must be done
Surreptitiously
Chivalry
Orthography
Imperative
40. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Enervate
Surreptitiously
Articulate
Circumnavigate
41. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Verbatim
Imperious
Deciduous
Proposition
42. Being a social butterfly
Gregarious
Xenophobe
Ambiguous
Voracious
43. Currency used in many European countries
Deciduous
Euro
Facetious
Impeach
44. One who seeks an opportunity
Filibuster
Deciduous
Opportunist
Ostentatious
45. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Philosophical
Opportunist
Loathe
Irony
46. In disguise
Verbatim
Ominous
Incognito
Ambiguous
47. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Surreptitiously
Homogeneous
Impromptu
Epiphany
48. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Philosophical
Nomenclature
Impeach
Ominous
49. An opportune time; good timing
Comply
Irony
Auspicious
Enervate
50. Breathing
Respiration
Gauche
Loquacious
Photosynthesis