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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. brazen - gauche - impertinent






2. egg on






3. auspicious - salutary - salubrious






4. marshal - gussy up - accouter






5. botch - bollix up - klutz






6. lavish - ample






7. perspicacity - acumen - bigotry






8. haven






9. dupe - cozen






10. malediction - execration - imprecation






11. exhort - admonish






12. incongruity






13. vacillating






14. humbug - mountebank






15. harmonious






16. meandering - oblique - periphrastic






17. stunt






18. impromptu






19. abstemious - ascetic - somber






20. astound - stupefy






21. climax






22. abrasion - enervation - diminution






23. acquiesce






24. shelve - table






25. libel - aspersion






26. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






27. morose - downcast






28. defer






29. peevish - choleric - ornery - curmudgeon






30. frantic - perturbed - overwrought






31. calamitous - somber






32. awry - askance - derisively






33. superlative - virtuoso - transcendent






34. inveterate - perennial






35. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






36. perspicacious - wily - acumen - sagacious






37. kink - repudiate - abjure






38. rout - trounce - drub - thwart - abash






39. skirt






40. deft






41. chubby - rotund






42. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti






43. niggardliness - rapacious - stingy






44. diviner - soothsayer - prognosticate - presage






45. adjudicate






46. outlandish - queer - eccentric






47. expiate - penance






48. stymie - quizzical






49. asseverate - aver






50. insinuate