Verbal Advantage - Level 10 » Review Test for Level 10

Quiz

  1. Which word is a synonym of paucity?
    • (a) superfluity
    • (b) idiosyncrasy
    • (c) proclivity
    • (d) exiguity
  2. Which word means to burn the midnight oil or to write in a scholarly or pedantic fashion?
    • (a) expatiate
    • (b) lucubrate
    • (c) fulminate
    • (d) divagate
  3. Which is not an accepted meaning of troglodyte?
    • (a) a prehistoric cave dweller
    • (b) person who chooses to live in seclusion
    • (c) a vain, boastful person
    • (d) a brutish, unsophisticated person
  4. Which word is a synonym of anchorite and eremite?
    • (a) priest
    • (b) hermit
    • (c) prophet
    • (d) sailor
  5. Which word is a synonym of miscellaneous and heterogeneous?
    • (a) plexiform
    • (b) aleatory
    • (c) farraginous
    • (d) protean
  6. Cynosure and cynical come ultimately from the Greek kynos, which meant
    • (a) dog
    • (b) popular
    • (c) scornful
    • (d) the North Star
  7. Four of the five words below are related in meaning. Which word has a different, unrelated meaning?
    • (a) badinage
    • (b) banter
    • (c) raillery
    • (d) rodomontade
    • (e) persiflage
  8. Which word is a synonym of demotic?
    • (a) pedantic
    • (b) vernacular
    • (c) dictatorial
    • (d) hierarchical
    • (e) diabolical
  9. Which word is an antonym of saturnine?
    • (a) aleatory
    • (b) taciturn
    • (c) sanguine
    • (d) phlegmatic
  10. The lion in lionize signifies a person who is especially
    • (a) ruthless
    • (b) dangerous
    • (c) important
    • (d) successful
  11. Four of the five words below are related in meaning. Which word has a different, unrelated meaning?
    • (a) gasconade
    • (b) vainglory
    • (c) fanfaronade
    • (d) fulmination
    • (e) jactitation
  12. Which word means weekly or pertaining to a week?
    • (a) hebdomadal
    • (b) hebetudinous
    • (c) hortatory
    • (d) hieratic
  13. The combining form -philia comes from the Greek philein, which means
    • (a) to love
    • (b) to worship
    • (c) to know
    • (d) to fear
  14. Which word means the fear of disrobing in front of someone?
    • (a) pantophobia
    • (b) philemaphobia
    • (c) dishabillophobia
    • (d) syphilophobia
  15. Which word by derivation means a drinking party?
    • (a) lassitude
    • (b) deipnosophy
    • (c) rapprochement
    • (d) symposium
  16. What does sanguinary mean?
    • (a) cheerful
    • (b) confident
    • (c) bloody
    • (d) ruddy
  17. Which word means easily crumbled or crushed?
    • (a) factitious
    • (b) fuliginous
    • (c) fugacious
    • (d) friable
  18. Which word is a synonym of vituperate and excoriate?
    • (a) hebetate
    • (b) scarify
    • (c) triturate
    • (d) fulminate
  19. Which word is the antonym of pathological?
    • (a) phlegmatic
    • (b) iatrogenic
    • (c) apodictic
    • (d) hieratic
  20. Which word means the abandonment of a cause, a party, or a religion?
    • (a) tergiversation
    • (b) badinage
    • (c) heliolatry
    • (d) defenestration
    • (e) propinquity
  21. Which two words are not synonyms?
    • (a) torpid, hebetudinous
    • (b) otiose, dilatory
    • (c) somnolent, lethargic
    • (d) faineant, indolent
  22. Which word means rough and bristly?
    • (a) nacreous
    • (b) glabrous
    • (c) risible
    • (d) hispid
  23. Sciolist and sciolism come from the Latin verb scire, which means
    • (a) to study
    • (b) to pretend
    • (c) to deceive
    • (d) to know
  24. Which word suggests a soft sound?
    • (a) fulmination
    • (b) cacophony
    • (c) susurrus
    • (d) cachinnation
  25. What does chryselephantine mean?
    • (a) made of gold and ivory
    • (b) belonging to an ancient time
    • (c) massive and unwieldy
    • (d) extremely generous
  26. Which Latin phrase means “words a foot and a half long”?
    • (a) verbum sat sapienti
    • (b) sesquipedalia verba
    • (c) verbatim et litteratim et punctatim
  27. Divagate and noctivagant come from the Latin verb vagari, which means
    • (a) to divide
    • (b) to darken
    • (c) to wander
    • (d) to confuse
  28. Which word denotes speech that urges or advises earnestly?
    • (a) rodomontade
    • (b) exhortation
    • (c) fulmination
    • (d) contretemps
  29. Which word refers to the tendency of plants to bend or move toward a source of light?
    • (a) noctivagation
    • (b) tergiversation
    • (c) lucubration
    • (d) heliotropism
    • (e) crepitation
  30. What is logomachy?
    • (a) shadow-boxing
    • (b) the ability to endure hardship
    • (c) the act of reasoning or deducing
    • (d) a battle of words
  31. Which word suggests unscrupulousness or chicanery?
    • (a) meretricious
    • (b) pettifog
    • (c) vitiation
    • (d) faineant
  32. Which word means having characteristics or qualities of both sexes?
    • (a) troglodytic
    • (b) comminuted
    • (c) epicene
    • (d) frangible
    • (e) protean
  33. Which word denotes a vehement denunciation?
    • (a) exhortation
    • (b) expurgation
    • (c) execration
    • (d) expiation
    • (e) exoneration
  34. Something putative is
    • (a) thought to be so but not proved
    • (b) corrupted or contaminated
    • (c) apparently true but actually false or deceptive
    • (d) absolutely certain
    • (e) utterly detestable
Answer Key
  1. (d) exiguity
  2. (b) lucubrate
  3. (c) a vain, boastful person
  4. (b) hermit
  5. (c) farraginous
  6. (a) dog
  7. (d) rodomontade
  8. (b) vernacular
  9. (c) sanguine
  10. (c) important
  11. (d) fulmination
  12. (a) hebdomadal
  13. (a) to love
  14. (c) dishabillophobia
  15. (d) symposium
  16. (c) bloody
  17. (d) friable
  18. (b) scarify
  19. (b) iatrogenic
  20. (a) tergiversation
  21. (b) otiose, dilatory
  22. (d) hispid
  23. (d) to know
  24. (c) susurrus
  25. (a) made of gold and ivory
  26. (b) sesquipedalia verba
  27. (c) to wander
  28. (b) exhortation
  29. (d) heliotropism
  30. (d) a battle of words
  31. (b) pettifog
  32. (c) epicene
  33. (c) execration
  34. (a) thought to be so but not proved
Answer Key
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