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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. meandering - oblique - periphrastic






2. deft






3. uncouth - crass - lout






4. perfunctory - slapdash






5. adjudicate






6. showdown






7. pious - reverent






8. curt - terse






9. mordant - acidulous - acrimony - mordancy






10. espouse - proponent - backer






11. morose - downcast






12. surmise - speculate






13. kink - repudiate - abjure






14. frantic - perturbed - overwrought






15. grandiloquent - highfalutin - turgid - fustian






16. botch - bollix up - klutz






17. misanthropic - sardonic - acerbic






18. dupe - cozen






19. calamitous - somber






20. auspicious - salutary - salubrious






21. incongruity






22. pose - mannerism






23. eschew - abstemious - ascetic






24. perspicacity - acumen - bigotry






25. treatise - sermon - colloquy






26. sadistic - grisly - ghastly - heinous






27. perspicacious - wily - acumen - sagacious






28. rebuke - chastise - upbraid






29. climax






30. pundit - savant - maven - cognoscenti






31. vacillating






32. insinuate






33. shelve - table






34. hardnosed






35. succinct - terse - laconic - pithy






36. canon - gauge






37. content






38. substantiate






39. derogate - depreciate






40. plausibility






41. diviner - soothsayer - prognosticate - presage






42. abstemious - ascetic - somber






43. surreptitious - furtive






44. skirt






45. countenance - tolerate






46. chubby - rotund






47. apropos - germane






48. milieu






49. superlative - virtuoso - transcendent






50. egg on