Verbal Advantage - Level 08 Review Test
Question 1 |
Which word comes from a Latin word meaning “the fee a miller received for grinding grain”?
A | remuneration |
B | perquisite |
C | emolument |
D | commensurate |
Question 2 |
Which three words are synonyms?
A | hidebound, complaisant, tenacious |
B | intransigent, obdurate, recalcitrant |
C | intractable, refractory, malleable |
D | obstinate, resolute, acquiescent |
Question 3 |
Which word is not a synonym of sagacious?
A | percipient |
B | sapient |
C | credulous |
D | perspicacious |
E | judicious |
Question 4 |
An importunate person is
A | bitter |
B | miserable |
C | rude |
D | demanding |
Question 5 |
Alacrity connotes all of the following except for
A | quickness |
B | liveliness |
C | promptness |
D | eagerness |
E | suddenness |
Question 6 |
Which word is an antonym of palliate?
A | mitigate |
B | expurgate |
C | exacerbate |
D | propitiate |
Question 7 |
A captious person could reasonably be all of the following except
A | mordant |
B | acerbic |
C | acrimonious |
D | reprobate |
E | querulous |
Question 8 |
Which verb means to make corrections in a text?
A | expurgate |
B | interpolate |
C | emend |
D | bowdlerize |
Question 9 |
Apocryphal and supposititious are synonyms of
A | plausible |
B | spurious |
C | quixotic |
D | sagacious |
Question 10 |
Which word comes from a Latin verb meaning to will or wish?
A | succor |
B | volition |
C | obviate |
D | truculent |
Question 11 |
Which words are not synonyms?
A | malefactor, pariah |
B | reprobate, varlet |
C | rapscallion, scofflaw |
D | blackguard, miscreant |
Question 12 |
Which word is a synonym of quixotic?
A | ethereal |
B | chimerical |
C | mercurial |
D | vapid |
E | utilitarian |
Question 13 |
What is putrefaction?
A | confusion |
B | purity |
C | disagreement |
D | decay |
Question 14 |
The Greek god Hermes carried a winged staff with two serpents coiled around it. This staff now serves as the symbol of the medical profession. What is it called?
A | a nostrum |
B | a sinecure |
C | a martinet |
D | a caduceus |
Question 15 |
Compunction, poignant, and pungent all come from a Latin verb meaning
A | to hurt or break |
B | to annoy or bother |
C | to prick or sting |
D | to sense or feel |
Question 16 |
Which word is an antonym of estrangement and disaffection?
A | propitiation |
B | suppuration |
C | compunction |
D | expatiation |
Question 17 |
Which set of words contains a word that is not eponymous?
A | martinet, maverick, chauvinism |
B | gargantuan, tantamount, epicurean |
C | quixotic, sandwich, herculean |
D | mercurial, silhouette, draconian |
Question 18 |
Which word means narrow-minded, bigoted, and selfrighteous moral censorship?
A | Pyrrhonism |
B | intransigence |
C | expurgation |
D | Comstockery |
Question 19 |
Which word entered English from Tamil, one of the languages of India?
A | offal |
B | cavil |
C | pariah |
D | jejune |
Question 20 |
Which word is a synonym of germane?
A | apposite |
B | prosaic |
C | incipient |
D | pernicious |
E | stolid |
Question 21 |
Which word is not a synonym of licentious?
A | libidinous |
B | lubricious |
C | libertine |
D | lickerish |
E | lissome |
F | lascivious |
Question 22 |
Which word means outdated, old and worn out?
A | vapid |
B | inefficacious |
C | superannuated |
D | wizened |
Question 23 |
Which phrase is not an appropriate use of the word egregious?
A | an egregious fool |
B | an egregious success |
C | an egregious lie |
D | an egregious mistake |
Question 24 |
What is an epigram?
A | an inscription on a gravestone or tomb |
B | a short, witty poem or a short, pointed, clever statement |
C | an inscription on a building or monument or a brief quotation at the beginning of a literary composition |
Question 25 |
Which word is a synonym of expatiate?
A | descant |
B | variegate |
C | mollify |
D | blandish |
E | adduce |
Question 26 |
By definition, which of the following accompanies a sinecure?
A | compunction |
B | obsolescence |
C | emendation |
D | emolument |
E | predilection |
Question 27 |
Which of the following statements does not properly apply to something stolid?
A | It is intransigent. |
B | It is apathetic. |
C | It is impassive. |
D | It is phlegmatic. |
Question 28 |
Which word is a synonym of imbroglio?
A | cacophony |
B | machination |
C | duplicity |
D | quandary |
Question 29 |
Which of the following can be mellifluous?
A | obeisance |
B | blandishment |
C | invective |
D | refulgence |
E | admonishment |
Question 30 |
Which words suggest moving with nimbleness, agility, and grace?
A | limber, lithe |
B | lissome, limber |
C | lithe, lissome |
D | lissome, limber, lithe |
Question 31 |
What did Thomas Bowdler do to the Bible and Shakespeare’s works?
A | He palliated them. |
B | He expurgated them. |
C | He emended them. |
D | He made interpolations in them. |
E | He made them quixotic. |
Question 32 |
Sated and satiated are synonyms of
A | ineffable |
B | incessant |
C | surfeited |
D | superannuated |
E | spurious |
Question 33 |
Which statement is correct?
A | Consul is properly pronounced KAHN-sul. |
B | Consul is properly pronounced KOWN-sul. |
C | Consul is properly pronounced KAHN-sul or KOWN-sul. |
Question 34 |
Which mispronunciation is an example of metathesis?
A | GREE-vee-us for grievous |
B | JOO-luh-ree for jewelry |
C | LY-ber-ee for library |
D | pro-noun-ciation for pronunciation |
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