Test sheet for ECPE Vocabulary Test Online

amateur

(1)

n. E.g. The amateur is someone who loves a topic or hobby or interest, and pursues it with dedication, love, and attention to detail.

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movement in an arc; clean with a broom; wide scope; winning all
production of food by preparing the land to grow crops
one who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church; service conducted in a chapel
pattern; beat; recurring at regular intervals
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behave

(2)

v. E.g. How we behave is up to us, but Nikolai believes that everything is predetermined by one's particular circumstances.

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move or gather in large numbers; be overrun
perform; conduct oneself in a proper way
provide or raise the funds or capital for; supply funds to
put into a certain place; cause to lie down; spread over a surface
put at risk; adventure
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contradictory

(3)

a. E.g. That's somewhat self contradictory, don't you think?

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more than adequate; willing to give and share unstintingly
nature of, or being a contradiction; mutually exclusive; opposing
looking within oneself; thoughtful about oneself; studying or exhibiting one's own internal state
relating to foundation or base; elementary; primary; essential
marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting; not straightforward; circuitous
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enhance

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v. E.g. This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat.

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make better or more attractive; increase; improve
make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge
occur in a successive manner; pass back and forth from one state, action, or place to another
proclaim as with a trumpet; spread news about
provide; supply; equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for
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festive

(5)

a. E.g. It was my first exposure to foreign cultures in festive costumes, and may have provided me early inspiration to explore distant shores.

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open for the public to read; obvious; plain
moving or removal; change from one place
offering fun and gaiety; joyous; celebratory
prepared; inclined; be ready; being particular condition of body or of health
exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; quick to understand
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impressionable

(6)

a. E.g. I just hoped that Richards would finally realize that people, especially impressionable kids, do indeed look up to him.

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of or relating to or used in exercises intended to develop strength and agility
noticeable; prominent; easy to notice; obvious
readily or easily influenced; suggestible; capable of receiving impressions; emotional
having the nature of an idiom; characteristic of a given language
of or relating to congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States
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mandatory

(7)

a. E.g. These instructions are mandatory, any violation will be severely punished.

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constituting or affording pleasing views of natural features; beautiful
obligatory; required or commanded by authority
relating to, or produced by motion; dynamic
not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
in a smooth manner; successfully; easily
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molten

(8)

a. E.g. The city of Pompeii was destroyed by volcanic ash rather than by molten lava flowing from Mount Vesuvius.

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readily or easily influenced; suggestible; capable of receiving impressions; emotional
modern; belonging to the same period of time
made liquid by heat; glowing red-hot; being in a state of fusion
of dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow
of common people; suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain
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purified

(9)

a. E.g. Is it safe to simply wash them in purified water or is some further treatment necessary?

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worthy of consideration; large in amount, extent, or degree
penniless, without any money; financially ruined
recurring with measured regularity
relating to essential nature of a thing; inherent; built-in
refined; made or rendered pure or more pure
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revision

(10)

n. E.g. It would require a drastic revision of his opinion.

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preference; tendency; inclined surface; slope
personnel who assist superior to carry out assigned task
plot; intrigue; agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act
modification; correction; act of altering
pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions
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swift

(11)

a. E.g. Commission says it supports the swift progress on the reform agenda.

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on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle; in or into a group, organization, or business
old; belonging to, made in, or typical of an earlier period
not in accordance with the season
randomly chosen; determined by chance or impulse, and not by reason or principle
quick; moving or capable of moving with great speed
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wedding

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n. E.g. Two of India's most popular movie stars are engaged to be married later this year; that would be Bollywood's biggest wedding in years.

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similarity or analogy; communication by the exchange of letters
condition or quality of being fresh, in any sense; originality by virtue of being new and surprising
peaceful resistance by fasting or refusing to cooperate
measuring instrument to detect distant objects by microwave
marriage ceremony; act of marrying; anniversary of a marriage
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