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Synonyms Test - 2
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. laggard - dawdling - lethargic - shilly-shallying
callous
consensus
dilatory
censure
2. perspicacious - wily - acumen - sagacious
astute
accede
defer
allude
3. rebuke - chastise - upbraid
censure
delineate
callous
criterion
4. mainstay - bolster
alienate
collaborate
abdicate
buttress
5. divest oneself of
badger
crucial
brusque
abdicate
6. pivotal
devoid
crucial
delineate
calumny
7. jocund - jovial - blase
credibility
blithe
articulate
construe
8. trite - prosaic - vapid - jejune - cliche
banal
brusque
circumvent
crucial
9. bowdlerizer - comstockery
benign
boycott
censor
asylum
10. defer
abstain
cajole
bombastic
adjourn
11. prim - coy - self-effacing - staid
bravado
demure
calumny
abstain
12. abrasion - enervation - diminution
concise
asylum
cajole
attrition
13. keen - fervent - gung ho - fervid
agenda
counsel
blithe
avid
14. apropos - germane
brash
deviate
belligerent
cogent
15. curt - terse
brusque
arbitrate
corpulent
concise
16. barren - dour - dreary - drab
anachronism
bleak
agenda
augment
17. wheedle - inveigle
blithe
cajole
bravado
boorish
18. auspicious - salutary - salubrious
apprehend
atone
credibility
benign
19. collude - quisling
boorish
anathema
collaborate
attrition
20. adjudicate
cohere
arbitrate
divulge
distraught
21. brazen - gauche - impertinent
cajole
concise
brash
circumvent
22. outlandish - queer - eccentric
ambivalent
augur
agenda
bizarre
23. ostracize
circumvent
boycott
criterion
allege
24. habituate
crucial
acclimate
distraught
censure
25. magnify
dejected
condone
duplicity
augment
26. etch - depict
delineate
copious
calumny
cohere
27. discretionary - despotic - autocratic
candid
consensus
confrontation
arbitrary
28. chicanery
corroborate
calumny
dexterous
duplicity
29. derogate - depreciate
disparage
anathema
deviate
dire
30. peccant - delinquent
austere
culpable
conjecture
agenda
31. opulent
curtail
affluent
arbitrate
austere
32. marshal - gussy up - accouter
benign
blithe
atrocity
array
33. espouse - proponent - backer
defect
advocate
criterion
allege
34. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian
deviate
divulge
arbitrate
bombastic
35. niggardliness - rapacious - stingy
anachronism
avarice
aggregate
bicker
36. shelve - table
chronic
articulate
cursory
defer
37. kink - repudiate - abjure
abhor
candid
defect
defer
38. dupe - cozen
delude
anathema
buttress
assimilate
39. docket
augment
cantankerous
censure
agenda
40. harmonious
blithe
bicker
caustic
compatible
41. astound - stupefy
brusque
cynical
austere
appall
42. loathe - abominate
abhor
delineate
compatible
dilatory
43. braggadocio
bravado
delineate
connoisseur
askew
44. ecumenical
disparage
catholic
anarchy
delete
45. haven
agenda
allude
dormant
asylum
46. milieu
ambience
dormant
drastic
conjecture
47. sedulous - assiduous
cynical
circumvent
denouncement
diligent
48. impromptu
attrition
candid
drastic
academic
49. dragoon - browbeat
dire
coerce
belligerent
advocate
50. bona fide - indubitable
authentic
chronic
dapper
candid