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 Test Questions
High School: 12th Grade
aesthetic     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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having a good reputation; honorable
increasing by successive addition
elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
full of wishful yearning or longing; sadly thoughtful
lacking in seriousness; not serious; relatively unimportant
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bureaucracy     Speak
 
(2)
n.  
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over regulated administrative system
particular aspect of life or activity; body of people who form part of society or economy
state of being alone; seclusion; lonely or secluded place
vocabulary that is for a specific group of people
the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
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collegiate     Speak
 
(3)
a. or ad.  
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effectively conveying thought or feeling; indicative
final; being the last or concluding; fundamental; elemental; extreme
of or relating to a focus; having or localized centrally at a focus
of or resembling or typical of a college or college students
flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
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consecrate     Speak
 
(4)
v.  
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fall apart; become reduced to components, fragments, or particles
adjust again after an initial failure
appoint to a clerical posts; dedicate to a deity by a vow; render holy by means of religious rites
gather into a mass, sum, or whole; amount to
call upon; ask for; request earnestly
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debutante     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
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an activity without interruption; the period of time during which something continues
someone who has withdrawn from his native land
the direction in which something, such as a building, faces; the face or front of a building
peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
young woman making formal entrance into society
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devastate     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
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free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate
make visual, or visible; see in fancy; form a mental image of
pay back for some expense incurred
ruin; lay waste; destroy; make desolate
portray; depict; draw or trace outline of; sketch out
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effusion     Speak
 
(7)
n.  
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flow under pressure; an unrestrained expression of emotion
sudden feeling of sickness or faintness; sudden attack of illness
quack; one who pretends to knowledge, skill, or importance
legacy; something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition
offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
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entreaty     Speak
 
(8)
n.  
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a serious and urgent request; an earnest or humble request
language used by a special group; technical terminology; nonsensical or meaningless talk
puzzle; a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe; a period of sleeplessness
a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
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foment     Speak
 
(9)
v.  
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give pleasure to; satisfy; indulge; make happy
try to stir up public opinion; promote growth of; apply warm lotion to
annoy; disturb, especially by minor irritations; be a mystery or bewildering to
make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
settle accounts to pay them off; clear up
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idiom     Speak
 
(10)
n.  
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procedure for religious ceremonies; any customary practice
expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
impression produced by achievements or reputation; recognized distinction or importance
something that helps bring about an action or a desired result; an incentive
one who puts on a false appearance of virtue; one who pretends to hold beliefs
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impertinent     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success; prosperous
dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
capable of being accomplished or brought about
skilled; expert; having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
improperly forward or bold; rude
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kinetic     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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relating to, or produced by motion; dynamic
thoroughly soaked; expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink
cheap in nature or appearance; tastelessly showy; shameful or indecent
rich and superior in quality
inoffensive expression of fat; stout
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maternal     Speak
 
(13)
a. or ad.  
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unoriginal; derived from another source
skeptical of motives of others; selfishly calculating; negative or pessimistic
caused by disease; pathological or diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome
conforming to accepted standards of social or professional behavior; adhering to ethical and moral principles
motherly; relating to mother or motherhood
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organism     Speak
 
(14)
n.  
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living being; system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body
art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances
the deliberate act of failing to pay money; the act of physically escaping from something by some adroit maneuver
god; divinity; supernatural things
offensive to accepted standards of decency or modesty; repulsive; disgusting
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pliable     Speak
 
(15)
a. or ad.  
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flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern
particularly; specifically; in an explicit manner
arising without external cause; growing without cultivation or human labor
lazy; disinclined to work or exertion; inactive; sluggish
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remittance     Speak
 
(16)
n.  
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disease, disorder, or ailment; unwholesome condition
remainder of something after removal of parts or a part; balance
transmitting money, bills, especially to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation
beggar; religious friar forbidden to own personal property who begs for living
death notice; list of dead
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rue     Speak
 
(17)
v.  
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feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for; mourn
treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
void or annul by recalling, withdrawing, or reversing; cancel; retract
mold or carve in relief; decorate with or as if with a raised design
make false appearance of; disguise; conceal; invent or imagine
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sediment     Speak
 
(18)
n.  
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agreement of opinions; harmonious state of things
indirect reference; symbolical reference or comparison; metaphor
temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
mildness, as of the weather; merciful, kind, or lenient act
deposit; matter deposited by some natural process
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synthetic     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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deeply, often dreamily thoughtful; engaged in serious thought or reflection; contemplative
impenetrable by light; not transparent; not reflecting light; having no luster
artificial; involving or of the nature of synthesis as opposed to analysis
fantastic; comically hideous; unnatural in shape or size; abnormal
obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality
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uncouth     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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queer; amusingly odd; comical
evoking lifelike images within the mind; pertaining to or consisting of pictures
able to pay all debts; capable of meeting financial obligations
serving or designed to reform
lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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