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 Test Questions
High School: 12th Grade
abject     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
coming from side; situated at or extending to the side
improperly forward or bold; rude
habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
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bureaucracy     Speak
 
(2)
n.  
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a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country
refinement and delicacy of performance; skillful, subtle handling
over regulated administrative system
energetic style; being able to survive and grow; capacity to live, grow, or develop
preference; tendency; inclined surface; slope
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component     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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living being; system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body
act intended to deceive or trick; practical joke
element; ingredient; abstract part of something
an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
usually short interval of rest or relief; delay in punishment
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crucial     Speak
 
(4)
a. or ad.  
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dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; of the greatest importance
flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
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daunt     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
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capture; attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence; hold in bondage or subjection
come into being; become reality
examine closely and critically
frighten; abate the courage of; discourage
distribute; prepare and give out; deal out in parts or portions
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disreputable     Speak
 
(6)
a. or ad.  
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incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent
very wicked; infamous by being extremely wicked
scornful; expressing contempt; showing a lack of respect
lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance
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emancipate     Speak
 
(7)
v.  
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destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
force someone to have sex against their will; hold spellbound
move or wave, as a weapon; raise and move in various directions
give up, renounce, abandon, lay down, or withdraw from, as a right or claim
free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
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feign     Speak
 
(8)
v.  
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make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
spread or flow throughout; pervade
worship; regard with feelings of respect or honor
completely destroy; eliminate; exterminate
approve formally; confirm; verify
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forthright     Speak
 
(9)
a. or ad.  
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of or resembling or typical of a college or college students
lacking stimulating or mild; agreeable
pervading; spread throughout every part
impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope or extent
directly ahead; straightforward
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idiom     Speak
 
(10)
n.  
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a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts
a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; an enclosed conduit for a fluid
dilemma; state of uncertainty or perplexity
definition or concise statement of principle; tersely phrased statement of truth or opinion
expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
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inevitable     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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cheap in nature or appearance; tastelessly showy; shameful or indecent
unavoidable; incapable of being avoided or prevented
joking ,often inappropriately; humorous
lacking in spirit or energy to exert effort
elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
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lucid     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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thoroughly soaked; expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink
of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; relating to the neck
easily understood; expressed clearly; bright or luminous
lacking in energy or will; peacefully resistant in response to injustice
removed or remote from others; solitary; hidden or isolated
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mechanization     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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one who puts on a false appearance of virtue; one who pretends to hold beliefs
death notice; list of dead
the condition of having a highly technical implementation; the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology
a noisy riotous fight; a confused struggle
quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
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personage     Speak
 
(14)
n.  
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form, appearance, or belongings of a person; external appearance, stature, figure, air
a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object
indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
act of providing or preparing for future use or application; making ready; preparation; foresight
quality or state of being brief in duration; concise expression
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prose     Speak
 
(15)
n.  
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a sheet of any written or printed material; the system of numbering pages
branch that flows into the main stream; tending to bring about; being partly responsible for
trace; remains; indication that something has been happened
essay; ordinary speech or writing; commonplace expression or quality
a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices; the act of letting the air out of something
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rational     Speak
 
(16)
a. or ad.  
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incapable of being overcome or defeated; unconquerable
consistent with; based on; using reason
secretive; not openly acknowledged or displayed
capable of being transmitted by infection, especially for disease; readily communicated
removed or remote from others; solitary; hidden or isolated
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rhapsody     Speak
 
(17)
n.  
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act of conveying; tools of conveying, especially vehicle for transportation
an epic poem adapted for recitation
clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic; mental disorder
mental keenness; quickness of perception
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simultaneous     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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existing, happening, or done at the same time
increasing by successive addition
of or relating to neurons; relating to a nerve or the nervous system
directly ahead; straightforward
incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable
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synthetic     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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expert at; very skilled; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
consistent with; based on; using reason
elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis
being of the most miserable kind; wretched; lacking pride; brought low in condition or status
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vitality     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
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surrender of prisoner by one state to another; delivery by one state to another
applying pressure; encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances
immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning
energetic style; being able to survive and grow; capacity to live, grow, or develop
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