Verbal Advantage - Level 08 » Review Test for Level 8

Quiz

  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
  2. Which three words are synonyms?
    • (a) hidebound, complaisant, tenacious
    • (b) intransigent, obdurate, recalcitrant
    • (c) intractable, refractory, malleable
    • (d) obstinate, resolute, acquiescent
  3. Which word is not a synonym of sagacious?
    • (a) percipient
    • (b) sapient
    • (c) credulous
    • (d) perspicacious
    • (e) judicious
  4. An importunate person is
    • (a) bitter
    • (b) miserable
    • (c) rude
    • (d) demanding
  5. Alacrity connotes all of the following except for
    • (a) quickness
    • (b) liveliness
    • (c) promptness
    • (d) eagerness
    • (e) suddenness
  6. Which word is an antonym of palliate?
    • (a) mitigate
    • (b) expurgate
    • (c) exacerbate
    • (d) propitiate
  7. A captious person could reasonably be all of the following except
    • (a) mordant
    • (b) acerbic
    • (c) acrimonious
    • (d) reprobate
    • (e) querulous
  8. Which verb means to make corrections in a text?
    • (a) expurgate
    • (b) interpolate
    • (c) emend
    • (d) bowdlerize
  9. Apocryphal and supposititious are synonyms of
    • (a) plausible
    • (b) spurious
    • (c) quixotic
    • (d) sagacious
  10. Which word comes from a Latin verb meaning to will or wish?
    • (a) succor
    • (b) volition
    • (c) obviate
    • (d) truculent
  11. Which words are not synonyms?
    • (a) malefactor, pariah
    • (b) reprobate, varlet
    • (c) rapscallion, scofflaw
    • (d) blackguard, miscreant
  12. Which word is a synonym of quixotic?
    • (a) ethereal
    • (b) chimerical
    • (c) mercurial
    • (d) vapid
    • (e) utilitarian
  13. What is putrefaction?
    • (a) confusion
    • (b) purity
    • (c) disagreement
    • (d) decay
  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
  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
  16. Which word is an antonym of estrangement and disaffection?
    • (a) propitiation
    • (b) suppuration
    • (c) compunction
    • (d) expatiation
  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
  18. Which word means narrow-minded, bigoted, and selfrighteous moral censorship?
    • (a) Pyrrhonism
    • (b) intransigence
    • (c) expurgation
    • (d) Comstockery
  19. Which word entered English from Tamil, one of the languages of India?
    • (a) offal
    • (b) cavil
    • (c) pariah
    • (d) jejune
  20. Which word is a synonym of germane?
    • (a) apposite
    • (b) prosaic
    • (c) incipient
    • (d) pernicious
    • (e) stolid
  21. Which word is not a synonym of licentious?
    • (a) libidinous
    • (b) lubricious
    • (c) libertine
    • (d) lickerish
    • (e) lissome
    • (f) lascivious
  22. Which word means outdated, old and worn out?
    • (a) vapid
    • (b) inefficacious
    • (c) superannuated
    • (d) wizened
  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
  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
  25. Which word is a synonym of expatiate?
    • (a) descant
    • (b) variegate
    • (c) mollify
    • (d) blandish
    • (e) adduce
  26. By definition, which of the following accompanies a sinecure?
    • (a) compunction
    • (b) obsolescence
    • (c) emendation
    • (d) emolument
    • (e) predilection
  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.
  28. Which word is a synonym of imbroglio?
    • (a) cacophony
    • (b) machination
    • (c) duplicity
    • (d) quandary
  29. Which of the following can be mellifluous?
    • (a) obeisance
    • (b) blandishment
    • (c) invective
    • (d) refulgence
    • (e) admonishment
  30. Which words suggest moving with nimbleness, agility, and grace?
    • (a) limber, lithe
    • (b) lissome, limber
    • (c) lithe, lissome
    • (d) lissome, limber, lithe
  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.
  32. Sated and satiated are synonyms of
    • (a) ineffable
    • (b) incessant
    • (c) surfeited
    • (d) superannuated
    • (e) spurious
  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.
  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
Answer Key
  1. (c) emolument
  2. (b) intransigent, obdurate, recalcitrant
  3. (c) credulous
  4. (d) demanding
  5. (e) suddenness
  6. (c) exacerbate
  7. (d) reprobate
  8. (c) emend
  9. (b) spurious
  10. (b) volition
  11. (a) malefactor, pariah
  12. (b) chimerical
  13. (d) decay
  14. (d) a caduceus
  15. (c) to prick or sting
  16. (a) propitiation
  17. (b) gargantuan, tantamount, epicurean
  18. (d) Comstockery
  19. (c) pariah
  20. (a) apposite
  21. (e) lissome
  22. (c) superannuated
  23. (b) an egregious success
  24. (b) a short, witty poem or a short, pointed, clever statement
  25. (a) descant
  26. (d) emolument
  27. (a) It is intransigent.
  28. (d) quandary
  29. (b) blandishment
  30. (c) lithe, lissome
  31. (b) He expurgated them.
  32. (c) surfeited
  33. (a) Consul is properly pronounced KAHN-sul.
  34. (b) JOO-luh-ree for jewelry
Answer Key
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