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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. showdown
confrontation
array
atone
ambience
2. etch - depict
agenda
chronic
delineate
distraught
3. auspicious - salutary - salubrious
chronic
austere
affluent
benign
4. latent - torpid - quiescent
disparage
bungle
dormant
deviate
5. antagonistic - inimical
adjourn
bizarre
adverse
avarice
6. barren - dour - dreary - drab
bleak
criterion
demure
discriminate
7. laggard - dawdling - lethargic - shilly-shallying
criterion
chronic
complacent
dilatory
8. braggadocio
bravado
conjecture
delineate
blight
9. docket
accede
circumvent
agenda
dormant
10. egg on
counsel
benign
abhor
abet
11. outlandish - queer - eccentric
arbitrate
consensus
bizarre
devoid
12. genial - amiable
coerce
affable
bland
atrocity
13. coalesce
brusque
cohere
discriminate
cursory
14. ecumenical
cogent
catholic
consensus
calumny
15. hardnosed
callous
devout
anomaly
abstain
16. morose - downcast
dejected
drastic
atone
crucial
17. vacillating
ambivalent
anomaly
chronic
discriminate
18. bellicose - pugnacious
curtail
anecdote
arbitrate
belligerent
19. impromptu
allude
callous
adverse
candid
20. chic - spruce
benign
agenda
candid
dapper
21. deduce
boycott
construe
aggregate
divulge
22. adjudicate
corroborate
connoisseur
delineate
arbitrate
23. sadistic - grisly - ghastly - heinous
atrocity
construe
boisterous
censure
24. skirt
appall
callous
criterion
circumvent
25. ignoble - debasing - sheer
alienate
cantankerous
askew
abject
26. caviling - niggling - picayune
boorish
captious
consensus
cohere
27. trite - prosaic - vapid - jejune - cliche
adjourn
atrophy
ambience
banal
28. exhort - admonish
affable
copious
counsel
absolve
29. plausibility
credibility
consensus
alienate
corpulent
30. wheedle - inveigle
cajole
callous
abstain
badger
31. shelve - table
agile
counsel
defer
desultory
32. bereft - barren
devoid
bicker
complacent
cursory
33. substantiate
anecdote
cynical
conjecture
corroborate
34. divest oneself of
censor
candid
abdicate
agile
35. eschew - abstemious - ascetic
captious
abstain
bland
affable
36. stymie - quizzical
ambience
baffle
avid
anarchy
37. vignette - raconteur
circumvent
adjourn
anecdote
blight
38. espouse - proponent - backer
criterion
avid
bleak
advocate
39. brazen - gauche - impertinent
brash
cohere
collaborate
corroborate
40. keen - fervent - gung ho - fervid
drastic
benign
avid
defect
41. erratic - spasmodic
desultory
baffle
conjecture
arbitrary
42. impart
dire
divulge
corroborate
belligerent
43. countenance - tolerate
belligerent
allude
conjecture
condone
44. surmise - speculate
devoid
conjecture
alienate
bicker
45. jocund - jovial - blase
adverse
agenda
collaborate
blithe
46. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti
chronic
connoisseur
adverse
allege
47. rigorous - potent - draconian
drastic
avid
agenda
dilapidated
48. chicanery
duplicity
cynical
bravado
conjecture
49. climax
crucial
denouncement
corpulent
arbitrary
50. dragoon - browbeat
diligent
coerce
circumspect
chronic