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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. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Impeach
Circumnavigate
Ominous
Vortex
2. Breathing
Respiration
Kowtow
Nihilism
Impeach
3. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Incognito
Diffident
Irony
Akin
4. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Kowtow
Enervate
Imperious
Loquacious
5. All the same
Vacuous
Ominous
Homogeneous
Bellicose
6. Currency used in many European countries
Euro
Suffragist
Tempestuous
Ambiguous
7. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Proposition
Sanguine
Surreptitiously
Nomenclature
8. A suggested plan
Gregarious
Inception
Ambiguous
Proposition
9. The love of thoughts and thinking about thinking
Bellicose
Amicable
Vortex
Philosophical
10. A command; something that must be done
Imperative
Gregarious
Voracious
Filibuster
11. Full of devotion or passion for something
Conspicuous
Lugubrious
Suffragist
Zealous
12. A swirling mass of something (often water)
Articulate
Vortex
Recapitulate
Metamorphosis
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
Ambiguous
Plagiarize
Respiration
Comply
14. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Chromosome
Euro
Deciduous
Opportunist
15. Plants getting energy from sunlight
Hubris
Deciduous
Chivalry
Photosynthesis
16. One who fears strangers or foreigners
Soliloquy
Conspicuous
Xenophobe
Proposition
17. Related to or alike
Akin
Tempestuous
Philosophical
Recapitulate
18. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Acumen
Opportunist
Facetious
Introspective
19. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Filibuster
Sanguine
Tempestuous
Impromptu
20. A complete change
Inception
Metamorphosis
Plagiarize
Amicable
21. Slyness or cleverness
Gregarious
Chicanery
Chromosome
Enervate
22. Falling off or shedding at a certain stage of growth
Respiration
Chromosome
Articulate
Deciduous
23. Not planned
Surreptitiously
Recapitulate
Plagiarize
Impromptu
24. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Voracious
Irony
Plethora
Ostentatious
25. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Wrought
Soliloquy
Circumlocution
Conspicuous
26. To make a signature legal
Circumnavigate
Notarize
Lexicon
Kowtow
27. Without controversy; you can't argue about it
Notarize
Irony
Incontrovertible
Amicable
28. Very angrily offended
Indignant
Parameter
Imperious
Lugubrious
29. Stormy or turbulent
Acumen
Tempestuous
Loathe
Ostentatious
30. Being a social butterfly
Inception
Circumlocution
Orthography
Gregarious
31. Proud or overbearing
Plagiarize
Imperious
Xenophobe
Parameter
32. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Enervate
Gauche
Barbaric
Heterogeneous
33. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Recapitulate
Wrought
Hubris
Plethora
34. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Barbaric
Articulate
Incontrovertible
Destiny
35. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Verbatim
Amicable
Enervate
Vortex
36. Innocent; unaware of what's going on
Contrite
Metamorphosis
Naïve
Euro
37. Beginning or start
Articulate
Kowtow
Inception
Deleterious
38. To intensely dislike; hate
Opportunist
Loathe
Incontrovertible
Euro
39. A speech to oneself; often used in theatrical productions
Zealous
Soliloquy
Circumnavigate
Verbatim
40. Mixed - having many different components
Lexicon
Heterogeneous
Nihilism
Philosophical
41. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Lugubrious
Diffident
Lexicon
Conspicuous
42. To summarize; recap
Respiration
Recapitulate
Nomenclature
Barbaric
43. To accuse someone (usually an elected official) of improper conduct
Impeach
Imperative
Gregarious
Circumlocution
44. Crude - violent - untamed
Soliloquy
Filibuster
Zealous
Barbaric
45. Keen insight or wit
Vacuous
Ominous
Respiration
Acumen
46. Empty; vacant
Euro
Auspicious
Vacuous
Enervate
47. Correct writing and/or spelling
Chicanery
Orthography
Chivalry
Bellicose
48. Talkative
Suffragist
Barbaric
Loquacious
Facetious
49. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Xenophobe
Conspicuous
Epiphany
Notarize
50. Word for word
Homogeneous
Verbatim
Chromosome
Impromptu