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A list of quizzes with their corresponding answers, each quiz presenting a word and its synonym, antonym, or related term. The quiz topics range from moral and emotional concepts to physical and environmental ones, providing a comprehensive vocabulary exercise.
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Quiz :Ascetic - Answer :No induldgence or luxuries Quiz :Innocuous - Answer :Harmless or insignificant Quiz :Banal - Answer :Commonplace, ordinary, prosaic Quiz :Ameliorate - Answer :To improve Quiz :Atrophy - Answer :To waste away from lack of use Quiz :Servile - Answer :Overly submissive Quiz :Flagrant - Answer :Glaringly wrong, faulty Quiz :Indolence - Answer :Laziness Quiz :Acquiesce - Answer :Accept reluctantly Quiz :Complacent - Answer :Smug, self-satisfied Quiz :Fastidious - Answer :Finicky, overly critical Quiz :Parsimony - Answer :Stinginess Quiz :Provincial - Answer :Narrow-minded, unsophisticated Quiz :Depravity - Answer :Corruption, wickedness Quiz :Euphonious - Answer :Melodious, pleasant-sounding Quiz :Cacophonous - Answer :Harsh-sounding Quiz :Guile - Answer :Cunning, deceitful
Quiz :Immutable - Answer :Not changing, permanent Quiz :Bastion - Answer :Stronghold, fort Quiz :Benign - Answer :Kindly, good natured Quiz :Disparage - Answer :To speak poorly of Quiz :Acuity - Answer :Sharpness/perceptive mind Quiz :Assuage - Answer :Reduce pain, alleviate, soothe Quiz :Avarice - Answer :Greed Quiz :Philistine - Answer :Lacks culture/taste Quiz :Scrupulous - Answer :Concerned, proper, conscientious, diligent Quiz :Languid - Answer :Slow and listless Quiz :Protracted - Answer :Drawn out, lengthy Quiz :Paucity - Answer :Scarcity, insufficient amounts Quiz :Didactic - Answer :Intending to teach Quiz :Elucidate - Answer :Explain, make clear Quiz :Capricious - Answer :Whimsical, fickle Quiz :Pretentious - Answer :Pompous, self-important Quiz :Suppress - Answer :To end an activity Quiz :Accolade - Answer :Praise Quiz :Ambivalence - Answer :Uncertainty, having mixed feelings
Quiz :Ossified - Answer :Fixed and rigid Quiz :Palpable - Answer :Can be felt Quiz :Supercilious - Answer :Arrogant Quiz :Visceral - Answer :Habitual, automatic Quiz :Variegated - Answer :Multicolored Quiz :Purveyor - Answer :Brings supplies, sells/spreads something Quiz :Profligacy - Answer :Reckless extravagance, wasteful and immoral behavior Quiz :Enfranchise - Answer :Give voting rights Quiz :Remuneration - Answer :Payment for work done Quiz :Talisman - Answer :Lucky charm Quiz :Bilk - Answer :To cheat, defraud Quiz :Engender - Answer :To cause/ give rise to Quiz :Abasement - Answer :Humiliation, degradation Quiz :Plantiff - Answer :Petitioner in a court of law Quiz :Replete - Answer :Full/ well-supplied Quiz :Abrogate - Answer :Cancel, deny, repeal, to abolish by authority Quiz :Harbingers - Answer :Indicators, bringers of warnings Quiz :Plaudit - Answer :Statement of strong praise Quiz :Ensconce - Answer :Establish firmly in a position
Quiz :Obdurate - Answer :Stubborn Quiz :Reprieve - Answer :Respite, postponement of sentence Quiz :Tawdry - Answer :Little value, gaudy Quiz :Blighted - Answer :Damaged, destroyed, ruined Quiz :Lachrymose - Answer :Tearful, sad Quiz :Obfuscate - Answer :To make something unclear Quiz :Repudiate - Answer :Shun Quiz :Abstemious - Answer :Self-denial Quiz :Crepuscular - Answer :Active at dawn an dusk Quiz :Rescind - Answer :Retract, repeal Quiz :Blunderbuss - Answer :Ancient weapon/ clumsy person Quiz :Envenom - Answer :to cause bitterness/ poison Quiz :Laconic - Answer :Using few words, brief, terse Quiz :Lampoon - Answer :Ridicule Quiz :Tenuous - Answer :Weak/flimsy, little strength or substance Quiz :Resonant - Answer :Deep, clear, echoing noise Quiz :Boorish - Answer :Ill-mannered, rough Quiz :Acrid - Answer :Sharp/pungent
Quiz :Ephemeral - Answer :Momentary, fleeting, transient Quiz :Jubilation - Answer :Extreme joy Quiz :Hackneyed - Answer :Cliched, worn out from overuse Quiz :Conundrum - Answer :Difficult problem Quiz :Fortuitous - Answer :Lucky, occurring by happy chance Quiz :Envanescent - Answer :Quickly fading, vanishing like vapor Quiz :Aberration - Answer :Differing from the norm, anomalous Quiz :Florid - Answer :Red-colored, flush, guady Quiz :Impetuous - Answer :Rash, impulsive Quiz :Impute - Answer :Attribute an action to a particular person/group Quiz :Perfidious - Answer :Disloyal, untrustworthy Quiz :Querulous - Answer :Irritable, habitually complaining Quiz :Surreptitious - Answer :Stealthy, quiet & cautious Quiz :Precocious - Answer :Matured early, unusually advanced Quiz :Capacious - Answer :Large in capacity Quiz :Spurious - Answer :Plausible but false Quiz :Provacative - Answer :To provoke, excite, stimulate controversy Quiz :Brusque - Answer :short, abrupt, dismissive
Quiz :Lobbyist - Answer :Get paid to win votes from politicians Quiz :Prosaic - Answer :Ordinary, dull, banal Quiz :Intrepid - Answer :Fearless, adventurous Quiz :Opulent - Answer :Wealthy, rich Quiz :Orator - Answer :Lecturer, speaker Quiz :Ostentatious - Answer :Showy, designed to impress Quiz :Fortitude - Answer :Strength of mind Quiz :Tenacious - Answer :Stubbornly unyielding Quiz :Fraught - Answer :Destined to result in, causing great stress Quiz :Forbearance - Answer :not exercising a legal right, self-control, restraint Quiz :Canny - Answer :Sharp-witted, shrewd Quiz :Capitulate - Answer :Surrender under agreed conditions Quiz :Vindicate - Answer :Prove you're right Quiz :Superfluous - Answer :More than enough Quiz :Sagacity - Answer :Wisdom Quiz :Vernerable - Answer :Respected because of age Quiz :Apathy - Answer :Lack of interest/ emotion Quiz :Reticent - Answer :Restrained, uncommunicative Quiz :Wary - Answer :Watchful, alert
Quiz :Concomitant - Answer :Accompanying in a lesser way Quiz :Contrite - Answer :Eager to be forgiven Quiz :Credulity - Answer :Readiness to believe Quiz :Cupidity - Answer :Greed, strong desire Quiz :Cursory - Answer :Hasty Quiz :Decry - Answer :to criticize openly Quiz :Diffident - Answer :Shy, quiet, modest, demure Quiz :Discursive - Answer :Lacking order Quiz :Dissemble - Answer :To conceal, fake Quiz :Dither - Answer :To be indecisive Quiz :Ebullient - Answer :Enthusiastic Quiz :Effrontory - Answer :Impudence, nerve, insolence Quiz :Effulgent - Answer :Radiant Quiz :Egregious - Answer :Extremely bad Quiz :Exculpate - Answer :To free from guilt or blame Quiz :Evince - Answer :To show, reveal Quiz :Execrable - Answer :Loathesome Quiz :Exigent - Answer :Urgent, critical Quiz :Expiate - Answer :To make amends for
Quiz :Conflagration - Answer :Great fire Quiz :Expunge - Answer :to obliterate, eradicate Quiz :Extant - Answer :existing, not destroyed or lost Quiz :Fallacious - Answer :Incorrect, misleading Quiz :Fatuous - Answer :silly, foolish Quiz :Fecund - Answer :fruitful, fertile Quiz :Feral - Answer :wild, savage Quiz :Fetid - Answer :having a foul odor Quiz :Fractious - Answer :troublesome or irritable Quiz :Garrulous - Answer :talkative, wordy Quiz :Hegemony - Answer :domination over others Quiz :Ignominious - Answer :humiliating Quiz :Impertinent - Answer :rude, insolent, impudent Quiz :Impinge - Answer :to impact, affect, make an impression Quiz :Implacable - Answer :Won't be appeased Quiz :Inchoate - Answer :beginning stage, formless Quiz :Ineffable - Answer :unspeakable Quiz :Inexorable - Answer :can't be persuaded or placated
Quiz :Winsome - Answer :charming, pleasing Quiz :Vacillate - Answer :to fluctuate, hesitate Quiz :Vacuous - Answer :lack of ideas, stupid, shallow Quiz :Indefatigable - Answer :incapable of defeat or decay Quiz :Vapid - Answer :dull, lifeless Quiz :Veracity - Answer :truthfulness, accuracy Quiz :Verdant - Answer :green tint Quiz :Vex - Answer :to confuse or annoy Quiz :Vicarious - Answer :secondhand experience Quiz :Vicissitude - Answer :chance events, change of circumstance Quiz :Vilify - Answer :to lower in importance, defame Quiz :Viscous - Answer :thick & syrupy, not free-flowing Quiz :Vitriolic - Answer :filled with bitter criticism Quiz :Vituperate - Answer :to berate/ criticize angrily Quiz :Ubiquitous - Answer :widespread, existing everywhere (water is everywhere) Quiz :Umbrage - Answer :offense, resentment Quiz :Undulate - Answer :to move in waves Quiz :Upbraid - Answer :scold severely
Quiz :Unctuous - Answer :excessively flattering, oily Quiz :Usurp - Answer :to seize by force Quiz :Tacit - Answer :express without words Quiz :Tantamount - Answer :equal in value or signifincance Quiz :Temerity - Answer :audacity, recklessness Quiz :Torpid - Answer :lethargic, doesn't move Quiz :Tractable - Answer :easily controlled Quiz :Transmute - Answer :to change in form Quiz :Trenchant - Answer :effective, articulate, clear-cut Quiz :Truculent - Answer :ready to fight, cruel Quiz :Turpitude - Answer :depravity, moral corruption Quiz :Sacrosanct - Answer :holy, something that should not be criticized Quiz :Palliate - Answer :reduce the severity of Quiz :Pallid - Answer :lacking color Quiz :Panacea - Answer :single overall cure Quiz :Paragon - Answer :model of excellence Quiz :Pariah - Answer :outcast Quiz :Perfunctory - Answer :little interest or enthusiasm
Quiz :Venality - Answer :Corruption Quiz :Abject - Answer :Pitiful, wretched Quiz :Accede - Answer :Agree Quiz :Accretion - Answer :Slow growth in size or amount Quiz :Adroit - Answer :Skillful Quiz :Auspicious - Answer :Favorable, indicative of good things Quiz :Apocryphal - Answer :Fictitious, false Quiz :Arcane - Answer :Obscure, secret