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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. exonerate - exculpate






2. deduce






3. elucidate - glib






4. caviling - niggling - picayune






5. meandering - oblique - periphrastic






6. dupe - cozen






7. uncouth - crass - lout






8. impart






9. peccant - delinquent






10. curt - terse






11. chic - spruce






12. pious - reverent






13. stunt






14. skirt






15. treatise - sermon - colloquy






16. surreptitious - furtive






17. diviner - soothsayer - prognosticate - presage






18. insipid






19. collude - quisling






20. plausibility






21. coalesce






22. deft






23. calamitous - somber






24. awry - askance - derisively






25. ostracize






26. defer






27. barren - dour - dreary - drab






28. trite - prosaic - vapid - jejune - cliche






29. outlandish - queer - eccentric






30. discretionary - despotic - autocratic






31. jocund - jovial - blase






32. frantic - perturbed - overwrought






33. mainstay - bolster






34. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






35. divest oneself of






36. surmise - speculate






37. kink - repudiate - abjure






38. scofflaw - negligent - derelict






39. stymie - quizzical






40. content






41. perspicacious - wily - acumen - sagacious






42. pivotal






43. chicanery






44. libel - aspersion






45. astound - stupefy






46. botch - bollix up - klutz






47. wheedle - inveigle






48. opulent






49. expiate - penance






50. estrange