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5 Written Questions

1. artificial, bending, cast, cellulose, chemical, ductile, elastic, fictile, formable, moldable, molded, pliable, pliant, pseudo*, resilient, shapable, soft, substitute, superficial, supple, synthetic, workable
2. dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton
3. betraying, deceitful, deceptive, double-crossing*, double-dealing*, faithless, false, insidious, misleading, recreant, shifty*, slick*, snake in the grass*, traitorous, two-faced*, two-timing*, undependable, unfaithful, unloyal, unreliable, untrustworthy
4. choke, clog, close, close out, congest, curb, fill, hinder, impede, leave out, lock out, obstruct, plug, prevent, seal, shut, stop up, stopper, throttle
5. accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability

5 Matching Questions

1. pungent
2. obviate
3. opaque
4. prevaricate
5. propitiate

1. a belie, cavil, con, distort, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, garble, hedge, invent, jive*, lie*, misrepresent, palter, phony up*, put on*, quibble, shift, shuffle, stretch, tergiversate
2. b anticipate, avert, block, counter, counteract, deter, forestall, forfend, hinder, interfere, interpose, intervene, preclude, prevent, remove, restrain, rule out, stave off, ward
3. c acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, high, hot, nosey*, odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned, sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking*, strong, tangy, tart, whiffy*, zesty
4. d blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, muddy, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid
5. e allay, alleviate, assuage, be enough, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, content, diminish, do*, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, meet halfway, mitigate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet, serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting*, learned, nitpicking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, precise, priggish*, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted
   1. prudence
   2. pragmatic
   3. pedantic
   4. plastic
2. asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still
   1. quiescent
   2. pungent
   3. prudence
   4. pristine
3. arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard*, harsh, headache, heavy*, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, overtaxing, painful, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty
   1. onerous
   2. obsequious
   3. opaque
   4. occlude
4. accelerate, advance, bring on, cast, discharge, dispatch, expedite, fling, further, hasten, hurl, hurry, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken, send forth, speed up, throw, trigger
   1. propitiate
   2. prevaricate
   3. proliferate
   4. precipitate
5. adamant, bullhead*, callous, cold fish*, dogged, firm, fixed, hang tough, hard, hard-boiled*, hard-hearted*, hard-nosed*, harsh, heartless, immovable, implacable, indurate, inexorable, inflexible, iron*, mean, mulish*, obstinate, perverse, pig-headed, relentless, rigid, stiff-necked*, thick-skinned*, tough, unbending, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncooperative, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible, unrelenting, unshakable, unsympathetic, unyielding
   1. obviate
   2. obstinate
   3. permeate
   4. obdurate

5 True/False Question

1. permeate → appease, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, conciliate, cool, fix up, humor, make nice, make peace*, make up*, mollify, pacify, propitiate, reconcile, satisfy, soft-pedal*, soothe, stroke*, sweeten, tranquilize, win over*
   

   True        False

2. pragmatic → businesslike, commonsensical, down-to-earth, efficient, extensional, hard, hard-boiled*, hardheaded*, logical, matter-of-fact, philistine, practical, realistic, sober, unidealistic, utilitarian
   

   True        False

3. plethora → deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus
   

   True        False

4. ostentatious → abject, apple-polishing, beggarly, bootlicking, brown-nosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, flattering, groveling, ingratiating, kowtowing*, mealy-mouthed, menial, obeisant, oily*, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, smarmy, sneaking, sniveling, spineless*, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying*, toadyish, truckling, unctuous
   

   True        False

5. paragon → absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, catch 22, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, puzzle, reverse
   

   True        False