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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. perspicacity - acumen - bigotry






2. egg on






3. rout - trounce - drub - thwart - abash






4. shelve - table






5. frantic - perturbed - overwrought






6. eschew - abstemious - ascetic






7. surmise - speculate






8. docket






9. discretionary - despotic - autocratic






10. chicanery






11. etch - depict






12. heretic - maverick - digress






13. insipid






14. deduce






15. exhort - admonish






16. turmoil






17. substantiate






18. haven






19. pivotal






20. plausibility






21. niggardliness - rapacious - stingy






22. coalesce






23. scofflaw - negligent - derelict






24. milieu






25. abstemious - ascetic - somber






26. peccant - delinquent






27. derogate - depreciate






28. showdown






29. dragoon - browbeat






30. truncate






31. sadistic - grisly - ghastly - heinous






32. bane - scourge






33. unanimity - concord






34. peevish - choleric - ornery - curmudgeon






35. espouse - proponent - backer






36. jocund - jovial - blase






37. curt - terse






38. mainstay - bolster






39. content






40. remission (of punishment)






41. collude - quisling






42. morose - downcast






43. barren - dour - dreary - drab






44. awry - askance - derisively






45. pose - mannerism






46. climax






47. laggard - dawdling - lethargic - shilly-shallying






48. countenance - tolerate






49. humbug - mountebank






50. prim - coy - self-effacing - staid