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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. bowdlerizer - comstockery






2. deft






3. ignoble - debasing - sheer






4. collar - fathom






5. milieu






6. exonerate - exculpate






7. climax






8. stymie - quizzical






9. bellicose - pugnacious






10. ecumenical






11. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






12. sadistic - grisly - ghastly - heinous






13. calamitous - somber






14. libel - aspersion






15. dragoon - browbeat






16. bereft - barren






17. coalesce






18. prim - coy - self-effacing - staid






19. rout - trounce - drub - thwart - abash






20. humbug - mountebank






21. vex - harry






22. chicanery






23. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






24. eschew - abstemious - ascetic






25. botch - bollix up - klutz






26. jocund - jovial - blase






27. surmise - speculate






28. content






29. rebuke - chastise - upbraid






30. countenance - tolerate






31. keen - fervent - gung ho - fervid






32. lavish - ample






33. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti






34. abrasion - enervation - diminution






35. hardnosed






36. truncate






37. haven






38. harmonious






39. apropos - germane






40. impart






41. elucidate - glib






42. estrange






43. stunt






44. deviant - atypical - incongruous






45. perspicacious - wily - acumen - sagacious






46. magnify






47. amalgamation






48. heretic - maverick - digress






49. expiate - penance






50. treatise - sermon - colloquy