Verbal Advantage - Level 09 » Review Test for Level 9

Quiz

  1. Which word is an antonym of prolix?
    • (a) sententious
    • (b) tautological
    • (c) pleonastic
    • (d) circumlocutory
  2. Which word is a synonym of apocryphal?
    • (a) ineffable
    • (b) fugacious
    • (c) spurious
    • (d) scurrilous
  3. Which word is an antonym of cupidity?
    • (a) avarice
    • (b) munificence
    • (c) covetousness
    • (d) venality
  4. Which word means pertaining to summer?
    • (a) hibernal
    • (b) vernal
    • (c) estival
    • (d) hiemal
    • (e) quotidian
  5. Which words are antonyms?
    • (a) temerity, imprudence
    • (b) apprehension, timorousness
    • (c) impetuosity, audacity
    • (d) effrontery, diffidence
  6. Which word is a synonym of proscribe?
    • (a) extol
    • (b) interdict
    • (c) obviate
    • (d) manumit
  7. Which words are synonyms?
    • (a) scrupulousness, malfeasance
    • (b) uprightness, perfidy
    • (c) probity, rectitude
    • (d) veracity, duplicity
  8. Which phrase misuses convince?
    • (a) convinced her to do it
    • (b) convinced him of the truth
    • (c) convinced her that it was important
  9. Which word is an antonym of puissant?
    • (a) opulent
    • (b) stalwart
    • (c) parsimonious
    • (d) enervated
  10. Which word is a synonym of peculate?
    • (a) importune
    • (b) defalcate
    • (c) supplicate
    • (d) desiccate
    • (e) excoriate
  11. Which word means excusable, forgivable, minor?
    • (a) venial
    • (b) venal
  12. Which words are antonyms?
    • (a) beneficent, bountiful
    • (b) niggardly, generous
    • (c) penurious, stingy
    • (d) grasping, parsimonious
    • (e) liberal, munificent
  13. What is a meretrix?
    • (a) an award
    • (b) a liar
    • (c) a prostitute
    • (d) a measuring device
  14. What does the prefix xeno- mean?
    • (a) wood
    • (b) animal
    • (c) abnormal
    • (d) strange
  15. Which word is not a synonym of quotidian?
    • (a) frequent
    • (b) ordinary
    • (c) commonplace
    • (d) daily
  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
  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
  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
  19. Which phrase means an error or blunder?
    • (a) bon mot
    • (b) caveat emptor
    • (c) faux pas
    • (d) bête noire
    • (e) sine qua non
  20. Which word is an antonym of meretricious?
    • (a) pusillanimous
    • (b) indefeasible
    • (c) diffident
    • (d) pulchritudinous
  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
  22. Ephemeral and evanescent are synonyms of
    • (a) mellifluous
    • (b) fugacious
    • (c) inexorable
    • (d) ubiquitous
    • (e) peripatetic
  23. Which words mean swollen, inflated?
    • (a) turgid, tumid
    • (b) turbid, turgid
    • (c) tumid, turbid
    • (d) turgid, turbid, tumid
  24. Which word means using coarse, vulgar, insolent language?
    • (a) flagitious
    • (b) disingenuous
    • (c) scurrilous
    • (d) recrudescent
    • (e) cachinnating
  25. Which word means causing or characterized by delay?
    • (a) exigent
    • (b) miscreant
    • (c) phlegmatic
    • (d) dilatory
    • (e) temerarious
  26. Which of the following is not one of the four humors?
    • (a) blood
    • (b) phlegm
    • (c) choler
    • (d) apathy
    • (e) melancholy
  27. Which word is an antonym of desiccated?
    • (a) phlegmatic
    • (b) succulent
    • (c) turbid
    • (d) wizened
  28. Which word connotes an intent to mislead or deceive?
    • (a) specious
    • (b) plausible
    • (c) both specious and plausible
  29. Pernicious and putrid are synonyms of
    • (a) noisome
    • (b) salubrious
    • (c) mephitic
    • (d) deleterious
  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
  31. What is osculation?
    • (a) yawning
    • (b) kissing
    • (c) watching
    • (d) eating
  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
  33. Which words are not synonymous?
    • (a) atrocious, odious
    • (b) execrable, heinous
    • (c) egregious, pusillanimous
    • (d) flagitious, nefarious
  34. Which word is associated with a school of philosophy founded by Aristotle?
    • (a) pariah
    • (b) peripatetic
    • (c) saturnalia
    • (d) lyceum
Answer Key
  1. (a) sententious
  2. (c) spurious
  3. (b) munificence
  4. (c) estival
  5. (d) effrontery, diffidence
  6. (b) interdict
  7. (c) probity, rectitude
  8. (a) convinced her to do it
  9. (d) enervated
  10. (b) defalcate
  11. (a) venial
  12. (b) niggardly, generous
  13. (c) a prostitute
  14. (d) strange
  15. (a) frequent
  16. (d) sine qua non
  17. (b) quid pro quo
  18. (c) bête noire
  19. (c) faux pas
  20. (d) pulchritudinous
  21. (b) denouement
  22. (b) fugacious
  23. (a) turgid, tumid
  24. (c) scurrilous
  25. (d) dilatory
  26. (d) apathy
  27. (b) succulent
  28. (a) specious
  29. (a) noisome
  30. (d) expiate
  31. (b) kissing
  32. (c) partly clothed
  33. (c) egregious, pusillanimous
  34. (b) peripatetic
Answer Key
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