Verbal Advantage - Level 09 Review Test
Question 1 |
Which word is an antonym of prolix?
A | sententious |
B | tautological |
C | pleonastic |
D | circumlocutory |
Question 2 |
Which word is a synonym of apocryphal?
A | ineffable |
B | fugacious |
C | spurious |
D | scurrilous |
Question 3 |
Which word is an antonym of cupidity?
A | avarice |
B | munificence |
C | covetousness |
D | venality |
Question 4 |
Which word means pertaining to summer?
A | hibernal |
B | vernal |
C | estival |
D | hiemal |
E | quotidian |
Question 5 |
Which words are antonyms?
A | temerity, imprudence |
B | apprehension, timorousness |
C | impetuosity, audacity |
D | effrontery, diffidence |
Question 6 |
Which word is a synonym of proscribe?
A | extol |
B | interdict |
C | obviate |
D | manumit |
Question 7 |
Which words are synonyms?
A | scrupulousness, malfeasance |
B | uprightness, perfidy |
C | probity, rectitude |
D | veracity, duplicity |
Question 8 |
Which phrase misuses convince?
A | convinced her to do it |
B | convinced him of the truth |
C | convinced her that it was important |
Question 9 |
Which word is an antonym of puissant?
A | opulent |
B | stalwart |
C | parsimonious |
D | enervated |
Question 10 |
Which word is a synonym of peculate?
A | importune |
B | defalcate |
C | supplicate |
D | desiccate |
E | excoriate |
Question 11 |
Which word means excusable, forgivable, minor?
A | venial |
B | venal |
Question 12 |
Which words are antonyms?
A | beneficent, bountiful |
B | niggardly, generous |
C | penurious, stingy |
D | grasping, parsimonious |
E | liberal, munificent |
Question 13 |
What is a meretrix?
A | an award |
B | a liar |
C | a prostitute |
D | a measuring device |
Question 14 |
What does the prefix xeno- mean?
A | wood |
B | animal |
C | abnormal |
D | strange |
Question 15 |
Which word is not a synonym of quotidian?
A | frequent |
B | ordinary |
C | commonplace |
D | daily |
Question 16 |
Which phrase denotes something absolutely necessary or indispensable?
A | bon mot |
B | quid pro quo |
C | faux pas |
D | sine qua non |
E | pro bono publico |
Question 17 |
Which phrase denotes something given in return for something else?
A | bête noire |
B | quid pro quo |
C | sine qua non |
D | coup de grâce |
E | bon mot |
Question 18 |
Which phrase denotes someone or something one especially dislikes or fears?
A | faux pas |
B | caveat emptor |
C | bête noire |
D | sine qua non |
E | quid pro quo |
Question 19 |
Which phrase means an error or blunder?
A | bon mot |
B | caveat emptor |
C | faux pas |
D | bête noire |
E | sine qua non |
Question 20 |
Which word is an antonym of meretricious?
A | pusillanimous |
B | indefeasible |
C | diffident |
D | pulchritudinous |
Question 21 |
Which of the following means the unraveling or resolution of a plot?
A | disquisition |
B | denouement |
C | coup de grâce |
D | deus ex machina |
Question 22 |
Ephemeral and evanescent are synonyms of
A | mellifluous |
B | fugacious |
C | inexorable |
D | ubiquitous |
E | peripatetic |
Question 23 |
Which words mean swollen, inflated?
A | turgid, tumid |
B | turbid, turgid |
C | tumid, turbid |
D | turgid, turbid, tumid |
Question 24 |
Which word means using coarse, vulgar, insolent language?
A | flagitious |
B | disingenuous |
C | scurrilous |
D | recrudescent |
E | cachinnating |
Question 25 |
Which word means causing or characterized by delay?
A | exigent |
B | miscreant |
C | phlegmatic |
D | dilatory |
E | temerarious |
Question 26 |
Which of the following is not one of the four humors?
A | blood |
B | phlegm |
C | choler |
D | apathy |
E | melancholy |
Question 27 |
Which word is an antonym of desiccated?
A | phlegmatic |
B | succulent |
C | turbid |
D | wizened |
Question 28 |
Which word connotes an intent to mislead or deceive?
A | specious |
B | plausible |
C | both specious and plausible |
Question 29 |
Pernicious and putrid are synonyms of
A | noisome |
B | salubrious |
C | mephitic |
D | deleterious |
Question 30 |
Four of the following five words are related in meaning. Which word has a different, unrelated meaning?
A | traduce |
B | vilify |
C | calumniate |
D | expiate |
E | excoriate |
Question 31 |
What is osculation?
A | yawning |
B | kissing |
C | watching |
D | eating |
Question 32 |
To be in dishabille is to be
A | in a state of disorder |
B | slightly intoxicated |
C | partly clothed |
D | at one’s wit’s end |
Question 33 |
Which words are not synonymous?
A | atrocious, odious |
B | execrable, heinous |
C | egregious, pusillanimous |
D | flagitious, nefarious |
Question 34 |
Which word is associated with a school of philosophy founded by Aristotle?
A | pariah |
B | peripatetic |
C | saturnalia |
D | lyceum |
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