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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. adjudicate






2. countenance - tolerate






3. expiate - penance






4. morose - downcast






5. sedulous - assiduous






6. mainstay - bolster






7. botch - bollix up - klutz






8. dupe - cozen






9. wheedle - inveigle






10. ignoble - debasing - sheer






11. deviant - atypical - incongruous






12. efface - excise






13. magnify






14. caviling - niggling - picayune






15. bowdlerizer - comstockery






16. hardnosed






17. treatise - sermon - colloquy






18. jocund - jovial - blase






19. kink - repudiate - abjure






20. dragoon - browbeat






21. estrange






22. climax






23. speculative






24. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






25. plausibility






26. uncouth - crass - lout






27. brazen - gauche - impertinent






28. deduce






29. rout - trounce - drub - thwart - abash






30. scofflaw - negligent - derelict






31. haven






32. unanimity - concord






33. discretionary - despotic - autocratic






34. turmoil






35. habituate






36. truncate






37. canon - gauge






38. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






39. opulent






40. asseverate - aver






41. astound - stupefy






42. elucidate - glib






43. calamitous - somber






44. defer






45. vacillating






46. superlative - virtuoso - transcendent






47. etch - depict






48. laggard - dawdling - lethargic - shilly-shallying






49. humbug - mountebank






50. squabble