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Synonyms Test - 2

Subjects : english, grammar
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. ignoble - debasing - sheer






2. sedulous - assiduous






3. efface - excise






4. remission (of punishment)






5. prim - coy - self-effacing - staid






6. sadistic - grisly - ghastly - heinous






7. pivotal






8. skirt






9. speculative






10. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






11. stymie - quizzical






12. substantiate






13. calamitous - somber






14. decrepit - rickety - ramshackle - sleazy






15. stunt






16. vignette - raconteur






17. milieu






18. content






19. bona fide - indubitable






20. hardnosed






21. vigilant - chary






22. shelve - table






23. niggardliness - rapacious - stingy






24. showdown






25. climax






26. abstemious - ascetic - somber






27. treatise - sermon - colloquy






28. estrange






29. harmonious






30. egg on






31. opulent






32. outlandish - queer - eccentric






33. docket






34. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti






35. deft






36. insipid






37. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






38. marshal - gussy up - accouter






39. malediction - execration - imprecation






40. elucidate - glib






41. kink - repudiate - abjure






42. latent - torpid - quiescent






43. dupe - cozen






44. jocund - jovial - blase






45. unanimity - concord






46. squabble






47. pose - mannerism






48. collude - quisling






49. habituate






50. frantic - perturbed - overwrought