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Barron's Wordlist Quiz 2 (51-150)

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Barron's Quiz 2 (51-150

Question 1 of 37

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something attached to but holding an inferior position

Select one of the following:

  • adroit

  • adjutant

  • adjunct

  • adorn

Explanation

Question 2 of 37

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accidental; casual

Select one of the following:

  • adherent

  • adventitious

  • adjuration

  • adulation

Explanation

Question 3 of 37

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adjuration

Select one of the following:

  • warn; reprove

  • decorate

  • skillful

  • solemn urging

Explanation

Question 4 of 37

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advent

Select one of the following:

  • refer to

  • arrival

  • urge; plead for

  • courteous

Explanation

Question 5 of 37

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adversary

Select one of the following:

  • opponent; enemy

  • hostile

  • courteous

  • shield; defense

Explanation

Question 6 of 37

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urge; plead for → advocate

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 37

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poverty, misfortune

Select one of the following:

  • adversity

  • adverse

  • adversary

  • advert

Explanation

Question 8 of 37

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affinity

Select one of the following:

  • kinship

  • insult; offend

  • collection; heap

  • openmouthed

Explanation

Question 9 of 37

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affront

Select one of the following:

  • insult; offend

  • abundance; wealth

  • openmouthed

  • kinship

Explanation

Question 10 of 37

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aggrandize

Select one of the following:

  • increase or intensify; raise in power, wealth, rank or honour

  • items of business at a meeting

  • attach or add on; fasten

  • joining; associating with

Explanation

Question 11 of 37

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affirmation

Select one of the following:

  • joining; associating with

  • increase or intensify; raise in power, wealth, rank or honor

  • items of business at a meeting

  • positive assertion; confirmation

Explanation

Question 12 of 37

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medieval chemistry

Select one of the following:

  • aghast

  • alchemy

  • alcove

  • alacrity

Explanation

Question 13 of 37

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agog

Select one of the following:

  • nimbleness

  • stir up; disturb

  • highly excited; intensely curious

  • cheerful promptness

Explanation

Question 14 of 37

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agnostic

Select one of the following:

  • one who is skeptical of the existence of knowability of a god or any ultimate reality

  • a hidden store of things, or the place where they are kept

  • a group of things or people acting or taken together as a whole

  • a group of questions and answers, especially about a set of Christian beliefs

Explanation

Question 15 of 37

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alcove

Select one of the following:

  • a small space in a room

  • the part of a wall in a room that is built around a chimney

  • nimbleness

  • total

Explanation

Question 16 of 37

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relieve → allay

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 37

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story in which characters are used as symbols; fable → allegory

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 18 of 37

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an assumed name → alias

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 37

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story in which characters are used as symbols; fable → allege

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 20 of 37

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alienate

Select one of the following:

  • make hostile; separate

  • calm; pacify

  • state without proof

  • an assumed name

Explanation

Question 21 of 37

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altercation

Select one of the following:

  • upward

  • noisy quarrel

  • entice; attract

  • apart; reserved

Explanation

Question 22 of 37

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aloft

Select one of the following:

  • upward

  • noisy quarrel

  • collect

  • apart; reserved

Explanation

Question 23 of 37

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allusion

Select one of the following:

  • noisy quarrel

  • apart; reserved

  • indirect reference

  • entice; attract

Explanation

Question 24 of 37

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ameliorate

Select one of the following:

  • able to walk

  • improve

  • food of the gods

  • female warrior

Explanation

Question 25 of 37

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amenable

Select one of the following:

  • readily managed; willing to be led

  • female warrior

  • environment; atmosphere

  • able to walk

Explanation

Question 26 of 37

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ambrosia

Select one of the following:

  • food of the gods

  • improve

  • able to walk

  • female warrior

Explanation

Question 27 of 37

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ambidextrous

Select one of the following:

  • able to walk

  • moving at an easy pace

  • capable of using either hand with equal ease

  • willing to be led

Explanation

Question 28 of 37

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amnesty

Select one of the following:

  • non-moral

  • friendship

  • pardon

  • friendly

Explanation

Question 29 of 37

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amity

Select one of the following:

  • friendly

  • pardon

  • friendship

  • non-moral

Explanation

Question 30 of 37

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amiable

Select one of the following:

  • friendly

  • faulty

  • friendship

  • agreeable

Explanation

Question 31 of 37

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anachronism

Select one of the following:

  • the order in which a series of events happened

  • relating to or thinking about the past

  • causing insensitivity to pain

  • something or someone misplaced in time

Explanation

Question 32 of 37

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amorphous

Select one of the following:

  • abundant

  • shapeless; vague; indeterminate

  • (of shapes) to fit together in a pattern with no spaces in between

  • covered with areas of different colours

Explanation

Question 33 of 37

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ancillary

Select one of the following:

  • secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place

  • short account of an amusing or interesting event

  • similarity; parallelism

  • serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary

Explanation

Question 34 of 37

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anarchy

Select one of the following:

  • absence of governing body; state of disorder

  • person who rebels against the established order

  • not controlled by laws

  • very fast and not organized

Explanation

Question 35 of 37

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analogy

Select one of the following:

  • serving as an aid or accessory

  • similarity; parallelism

  • comparable

  • curse

Explanation

Question 36 of 37

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anathematize

Select one of the following:

  • curse

  • an offensive word

  • similarity

  • comparable

Explanation

Question 37 of 37

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short account of an amusing or interesting event → ancillary

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

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