Vocabulary Quiz 2

This quiz consists of words taken from Vocabulary Lists Week 6 through Week 10. Note: Some questions will require you to choose the best word for the definition provided while other questions will require you to choose the correct definition for the given word.

published on August 30, 2011
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(v.) to impact, affect, make an impression; to encroach, infringe

Hint: 1 choice
Impinge
Decry
Abase
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(adj.) peculiar to one person; highly individualized

Hint: 1 choice
Reclusive
Malevolent
Idiosyncratic
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Capitulate

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to plot, scheme
(v.) to surrender
(v.) to criticize openly
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(n.) a trick

Hint: 1 choice
Paradigm
Iniquity
Ruse
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Pugnacious

Hint: 1 choice
(adj.) uncalled for, unwarranted
(adj.) quarrelsome, combative
(adj.) solitary, shunning society
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(v.) to reject, refuse to accept

Hint: 1 choice
Repudiate
Calibrate
Corroborate
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Usurp

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) return to harmony; to make consistent with existing ideas
(v.) to set, standardize
(v.) to seize by force, take possession of without right
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(adj.) shrewdness, perceptiveness

Hint: 1 choice
Circumspect
Meticulous
Perspicacity
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Proclivity

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) a strong inclination toward something
(n.) the highest point
(n.) sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own
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(adj.) excessively bold

Hint: 1 choice
Pugnacious
Audacious
Insular
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(adj.) aggressively and arrogantly certain about unproved principles

Hint: 1 choice
Dogmatic
Malevolent
Innocuous
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Rhapsodize

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to support with evidence
(v.) to engage in excessive enthusiasm
(v.) to reject, refuse to accept
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(n.) self-satisfied ignorance of danger

Hint: 1 choice
Epitome
Complacency
Iniquity
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Precipice

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) the face of a cliff, a steep or overhanging place
(n.) the highest point
(n.) an example that is a perfect pattern or model
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(adj.) charmingly old-fashioned

Hint: 1 choice
Frugal
Forlorn
Quaint
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Reprieve

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) a temporary delay of punishment
(n.) a disastrous failure, disruption
(n.) brotherhood, jovial unity
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Ascertain

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to stress, highlight
(v.) to perceive, learn
(v.) to fabricate, make up
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Implicate

Hint: 1 choice
(v.) to support with evidence
(v.) to humiliate, degrade
(v.) to involve in an incriminating way, incriminate
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(v.) to infer with little evidence

Hint: 1 choice
Validate
Delineate
Surmise
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Epitome

Hint: 1 choice
(n.) a perfect example, embodiment
(n.) a very small amount, especially relating to money
(n.) luck, finding good things without looking for them