Review Test for Level 1

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Review Test for Level 1

Which word means to restate in different words?
- (a) attribute
- (b) repeat
- (c) quote
- (d) paraphrase
Which word is an antonym of ostensible?
- (a) avowed
- (b) plausible
- (c) specious
- (d) demonstrable
Digress, ingress, and egress all come from the Latin gradi, which means
- (a) to stay
- (b) to run
- (c) to walk
- (d) to enter
Which word is not a synonym of morose?
- (a) dolorous
- (b) saturnine
- (c) sullen
- (d) jovial
- (e) lugubrious
Select the nearest synonym of whimsical, volatile, and mercurial.
- (a) arbitrary
- (b) capricious
- (c) cantankerous
- (d) abrupt
Which word is an antonym of sporadic?
- (a) incessant
- (b) occasional
- (c) temporary
- (d) intermittent
Which is not an accepted meaning of concur?
- (a) agree
- (b) act together
- (c) arrive together
- (d) happen together
Credible and credulous come from the Latin credo, which means
- (a) I know
- (b) I believe
- (c) I hope
- (d) I am
Who is associated with the origin of tawdry?
- (a) the Bard of Avon
- (b) King Arthur
- (c) Saint Andrew
- (d) Saint Audrey
Which word is an antonym of resolute?
- (a) vacillating
- (b) peevish
- (c) rational
- (d) careless
Which is not an accepted meaning of arbitrary?
- (a) random
- (b) illogical
- (c) consistent
- (d) exercising unrestrained power
Which prefix means “one, single”?
- (a) auto-
- (b) mono-
- (c) proto-
- (d) mini-
The phrases large in size and small in size are objectionable because
- (a) they are monotonous
- (b) they are vague
- (c) they are redundant
- (d) they are inaccurate
Which word is a synonym of supple?
- (a) flimsy
- (b) flexible
- (c) fragile
- (d) rigid
In retort and rejoinder, the prefix re- means
- (a) toward
- (b) against
- (c) back
- (d) twice
Which pair of words is not synonymous?
- (a) hidebound, intransigent
- (b) stubborn, adamant
- (c) intractable, unyielding
- (d) obstinate, circumspect
Which word means all-knowing, having universal knowledge?
- (a) omniscient
- (b) omnivorous
- (c) omnipresent
- (d) omnipotent
Which word is not a synonym of renaissance?
- (a) revival
- (b) reproduction
- (c) renewal
- (d) resurgence
Which word does not describe a cantankerous person?
- (a) malicious
- (b) affable
- (c) irascible
- (d) contentious
Which word means inappropriately lighthearted or disrespectful?
- (a) wry
- (b) tawdry
- (c) flippant
- (d) urbane
Which word means old-fashioned, belonging to an earlier time?
- (a) obsolete
- (b) adamantine
- (c) precocious
- (d) archaic
Which word means hatred of humankind?
- (a) moroseness
- (b) impertinence
- (c) misanthropy
- (d) cantankerousness
Which word is a synonym of aloof?
- (a) indifferent
- (b) sullen
- (c) urbane
- (d) flippant
What is a peeve?
- (a) something interesting and different
- (b) something negligible
- (c) something conspicuous and disagreeable
- (d) something that irritates or annoys
Which is the proper pronunciation of Realtor?
- (a) REE-luh-tur
- (b) REE-ul-tur
Which phrase is redundant?
- (a) in proximity
- (b) in close proximity
Which word means having great variety or diversity?
- (a) multifarious
- (b) multitudinous
- (c) multifaceted
What is a digression?
- (a) an effect or feeling
- (b) an injury or offense
- (c) a straying from the point
- (d) a double meaning
What does the prefix omni- mean?
- (a) all
- (b) above
- (c) many
- (d) everywhere
Which word is not a synonym of subjugate?
- (a) enslave
- (b) battle
- (c) conquer
- (d) defeat
Which word does not describe jargon?
- (a) specialized
- (b) technical
- (c) pretentious
- (d) candid
Laborious and toilsome are synonyms of which word?
- (a) monotonous
- (b) commodious
- (c) arduous
- (d) credulous
Which word means trivial, insignificant?
- (a) wry
- (b) unwarranted
- (c) inviolable
- (d) negligible
What is a scruple?
- (a) a guarantee or promise
- (b) something that causes hesitation or doubt
- (c) something mean-spirited or nasty
- (d) a judgment based on little evidence
Which word does not properly describe a renaissance?
- (a) refinement
- (b) renewal
- (c) resurgence
- (d) revival

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