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Language Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Primordial (adj.) | first created or developed |
| Enigmatic (adj.) | something hard to understand and explain |
| Voluptuous (adj.) | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| Withered (adj.) | To become dry and sapless; especially: to shrivel from or as if from loss of bodily moisture |
| Subsumes (v.) | To include or place within something larger or more comprehensive: encompass as a subordinate or component element (red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term “color) |
| Colossal (adj.) | Of a bulk, extent, power, or effect approaching or suggesting the stupendous or incredible |
| Ideology (n.) | Visionary theorizing |
| Elusive (adj.) | Hard to comprehend or define |
| Heathen (n.) | An uncivilized or irreligious person |
| Seductive (adj.) | Tending to seduce; enticing; beguiling; captivating |
| Foretell (v.) | To tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy. |
| Predecessor (n.) | Something succeeded or replaced by something else |
| Succinctly (adv.) | Expressed in few words |
| Anthropological (adj.) | the science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind. |
| Fraught (v.) | To be filled or laden |
| Vermin (n.) | an objectionable or obnoxious person, or such persons collectively. |
| Contiguous | Sharing a boundary or touching each other physically |
| Elusive | Difficult to find or catch |
| Inconclusive | Not producing a clear |
| Predator | A carnivorous animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals in order to survive |
| Raucous | Loud and hoarse or unpleasant |
| Hiatus | A break in something where there should be continuity |
| Precarious | Dangerously instable, unsteady, uncertain, or insecure |
| Forestall | To prevent or hinder somebody from doing something by acting in advance |
| Valiant | Brave and steadfast |
| Monotonous | Uninteresting or boring as a result of being repetitive |
| Forager | A person or animal that forages something, especially food |
| Intrepid | Fearless and persistent in the pursuit of something |
| Apogee | The best or greatest point |
| Arduous | Requiring hard work or continuous strenuous work |
| Controversial | Provoking strong disagreement or disapproval |
| Invasive | Involving an intrusion or infringement |
| Unpalatable | Having an unpleasant taste |
| Telepathy | Supposed communication directly from one person’s mind to another without speech |
| Ruthless | Having or showing no pity or mercy |
| Specious | Appearing to be true but really false |
| Catastrophe | A terrible disaster or accident |
| Seethe | A state of extreme emotion, especially unexpressed angry |
| Profligate | Extremely extravagant or wasteful |
| Maw | The mouth, jaws, throat or stomach of an animal, especially carnivorous |
| Sedentary | Involving a lot of sitting and corresponding little exercise |
| Synchronicity | The coincidence of events that seem related but are obviously caused by one another |
| Nadir | The lowest possible point |
| Constrain | To force somebody to do something especially though pressure of circumstances or obligation |
| Repulsive | Making somebody fell disgust or very strong dislike |
| Perceptible | Large enough, great enough or distinct enough to be noticed |
| Genocide | The systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic or religious group, or the attempt to do this |
| Epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter or section of a book, usually related to its theme |
| Anachronism | Something from a different period of time, for example, a modern idea or invention wrongly placed in a historical setting in fiction or drama |
| Imperial | Concerning or involving an empire or its ruler |
| Accreting | Growing larger especially by adding to what was there |
| Effigy | A dummy, often roughly made and intentionally amusing or insulting, representing somebody or something dislike or despised |
| Prolific | Highly productive |
| Meddlesome | Tending to interfere in other people’s business |
| Rivalrous | Prone to or subject to rivalry |
| Animus | A feeling or display of animosity |
| Compelling | Attracting strong interest and attention |
| coalesce (v) | to grow together or into one body |
| mystify (v) | to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely |
| defy (v) | to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly |
| sporadic (adj) | appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional |
| curtail (v) | to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish |
| petrified (v/adj) | to convert to stone or a stony substance |
| remnant (n) | a fragment or scrap |
| exploitive (adj) | to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account |
| sensibility/ies (n) | capacity for sensation or feeling |
| inundations (n) | to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge |
| instigate (v) | to urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course |
| doleful (adj) | sorrowful; mournful |
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