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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. sedulous - assiduous






2. estrange






3. eschew - abstemious - ascetic






4. chubby - rotund






5. milieu






6. caviling - niggling - picayune






7. peccant - delinquent






8. bellicose - pugnacious






9. ecumenical






10. ignoble - debasing - sheer






11. wheedle - inveigle






12. frantic - perturbed - overwrought






13. supple - lithe - spry






14. rout - trounce - drub - thwart - abash






15. egg on






16. latent - torpid - quiescent






17. malediction - execration - imprecation






18. mordant - acidulous - acrimony - mordancy






19. shelve - table






20. bereft - barren






21. coalesce






22. jocund - jovial - blase






23. canon - gauge






24. plausibility






25. diviner - soothsayer - prognosticate - presage






26. outlandish - queer - eccentric






27. magnify






28. speculative






29. trite - prosaic - vapid - jejune - cliche






30. vignette - raconteur






31. decrepit - rickety - ramshackle - sleazy






32. calamitous - somber






33. superlative - virtuoso - transcendent






34. ostracize






35. truncate






36. niggardliness - rapacious - stingy






37. bona fide - indubitable






38. perfunctory - slapdash






39. awry - askance - derisively






40. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti






41. habituate






42. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






43. incongruity






44. pivotal






45. perspicacity - acumen - bigotry






46. rebuke - chastise - upbraid






47. content






48. chic - spruce






49. abstemious - ascetic - somber






50. botch - bollix up - klutz