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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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1. Distinguished; like a knight would have been
Soliloquy
Lugubrious
Chivalry
Loathe
2. To do as you're told; to bow down in a servant like way
Impeach
Deleterious
Naïve
Kowtow
3. To make a signature legal
Zealous
Notarize
Ominous
Equinox
4. Equal parts day and night; occurs twice yearly (autumnal & vernal)
Plagiarize
Imperious
Equinox
Contrite
5. To accuse someone (usually an elected official) of improper conduct
Impeach
Destiny
Naïve
Kowtow
6. Rejection of all laws and institutions; anarchy
Incognito
Nihilism
Recapitulate
Loquacious
7. To do as you're told
Photosynthesis
Orthography
Euro
Comply
8. Slyness or cleverness
Orthography
Homogeneous
Inception
Chicanery
9. Stormy or turbulent
Suffragist
Nihilism
Chromosome
Tempestuous
10. A dictionary or complete set of words; everyone has their own personal one as well
Amicable
Ominous
Indignant
Lexicon
11. Truly sorry
Gauche
Contrite
Comply
Naïve
12. Mixed - having many different components
Diffident
Metamorphosis
Heterogeneous
Proposition
13. A lot of; many
Kowtow
Sanguine
Chromosome
Plethora
14. Breathing
Epiphany
Filibuster
Xenophobe
Respiration
15. Your fate or what's 'supposed' to be
Auspicious
Chromosome
Destiny
Chivalry
16. Extreme arrogance or haughtiness
Indignant
Proposition
Hubris
Recapitulate
17. A REALLY long speech used to get in the way of legislation being passed
Plethora
Kowtow
Deciduous
Filibuster
18. When you expect one thing and you get the opposite OR when you say one thing and mean the opposite
Articulate
Irony
Incognito
Parameter
19. Genetic part of our DNA; most humans have 46
Voracious
Orthography
Chromosome
Ambiguous
20. An A-Ha! Moment OR a Christian holiday celebrated in January
Homogeneous
Irony
Recapitulate
Epiphany
21. Sign that something is on the way (usually something bad)
Incontrovertible
Vortex
Barbaric
Ominous
22. Slyly or in a sneaky manner
Facetious
Surreptitiously
Verbatim
Lugubrious
23. 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
Heterogeneous
Incontrovertible
Impromptu
24. To make your way around
Circumnavigate
Enervate
Destiny
Nomenclature
25. Trying to be funny or lighthearted; joking
Homogeneous
Facetious
Kowtow
Epiphany
26. Foolish - awkward - socially inept
Gauche
Surreptitiously
Suffragist
Auspicious
27. Harmful
Indignant
Verbatim
Deleterious
Gauche
28. Many possible meanings; unclear or unsure
Chromosome
Ambiguous
Photosynthesis
Circumlocution
29. A swirling mass of something (often water)
Sanguine
Bellicose
Inception
Vortex
30. To talk in circles - or go on and on (around and around)
Circumlocution
Orthography
Photosynthesis
Lugubrious
31. Empty; vacant
Philosophical
Vacuous
Wrought
Articulate
32. Full of devotion or passion for something
Chicanery
Xenophobe
Zealous
Contrite
33. Plants getting energy from sunlight
Photosynthesis
Articulate
Nihilism
Filibuster
34. Word for word
Impeach
Opportunist
Verbatim
Epiphany
35. To speak clearly; describing someone who speaks clearly
Articulate
Vacuous
Irony
Gauche
36. Without controversy; you can't argue about it
Ambiguous
Incontrovertible
Akin
Notarize
37. Talkative
Indignant
Loquacious
Respiration
Tempestuous
38. Warlike; always looking for a fight
Bellicose
Enervate
Metamorphosis
Comply
39. To summarize; recap
Contrite
Gregarious
Recapitulate
Lugubrious
40. Correct writing and/or spelling
Proposition
Euro
Imperious
Orthography
41. Cheerfully optimistic
Photosynthesis
Sanguine
Filibuster
Bellicose
42. Showing off for effect; 'look at me!'
Nihilism
Akin
Ostentatious
Circumnavigate
43. Related to or alike
Vacuous
Akin
Sanguine
Respiration
44. Very angrily offended
Zealous
Recapitulate
Indignant
Incognito
45. Keen insight or wit
Acumen
Auspicious
Contrite
Imperious
46. Not planned
Philosophical
Impromptu
Irony
Notarize
47. A suggested plan
Deleterious
Philosophical
Verbatim
Proposition
48. To have energy sapped - be depleted
Xenophobe
Inception
Orthography
Enervate
49. Specialized naming system; often used in scientific classification
Plagiarize
Deciduous
Nomenclature
Gregarious
50. One who seeks an opportunity
Notarize
Irony
Opportunist
Zealous