Barron Revision 1 (1-350)

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Barron Revision 1
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Quiz by chuachristina11, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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blithe
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  • happy and without worry
  • talkative boaster
  • clear beef soup
  • foreshadow

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bovine
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  • complicated
  • placid and dull
  • interesting
  • pompous

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bludgeon
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  • difficult situation
  • quarrelsome
  • heavy-headed weapon
  • chaotic

Question 4

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bifurcated
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  • (of roads, rivers, branches, etc.) to divide into two parts
  • interesting
  • hilarious
  • boredom

Question 5

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bigotry
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  • a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who thinks that anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong
  • a person who believe everyone is born equal
  • a person who has more than one wife
  • a person who thinks highly of himself

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bilious
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  • suffering from indigestion; irritable
  • suffering from depression
  • anxiety
  • cheat

Question 7

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blandishment
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  • bleach, whiten
  • flattery
  • exile
  • deport

Question 8

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blasphemous
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  • proud
  • despises
  • profane; impious
  • feeling depressed

Question 9

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bereft
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  • assign to
  • endorse
  • authorise
  • deprived of; lacking

Question 10

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bestial
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  • benevolent
  • outstanding
  • brutal; inhuman
  • difficult situation

Question 11

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benison
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  • blessing
  • happiness
  • feeling lucky
  • showing concern

Question 12

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beguile
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  • delude; cheat
  • innocent
  • naive
  • quarrelsome

Question 13

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behemoth
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  • large and often extremely powerful
  • having a lot of problems or difficulties
  • right for someone to do something
  • giving false impression

Question 14

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bastion
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  • law enforcer
  • stronghold; something seen as a source of protection
  • confusion
  • chatic situation

Question 15

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bawdy
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  • rude
  • quarrelsome
  • indecent; obscene
  • despise

Question 16

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bedizen
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  • casual wear
  • fashionably dressed
  • sleepy
  • to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner

Question 17

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beatific
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  • solemn
  • make pretty
  • exhilarated
  • happy and calm

Question 18

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bane
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  • boredom
  • cause of ruin
  • pester; annoy
  • jester

Question 19

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barefaced
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  • shameless
  • daring
  • showing anger
  • pester

Question 20

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badinage
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  • serious injuries
  • flirtatious
  • teasing conversation
  • menacing; deadly

Question 21

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banal
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  • ordinary, and not original
  • counterfeit
  • teasing conversation
  • conversation

Question 22

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auxiliary
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  • providing help
  • to prevent something bad from happening
  • strong dislike
  • majestic

Question 23

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avarice
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  • self-governing
  • strong dislike
  • strict, stern
  • greed for wealth

Question 24

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aver
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  • to prevent something bad from happening
  • strong dislike
  • majestic
  • to say that something is certainly true

Question 25

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attenuate
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  • emphasis
  • make thin; weaken
  • courageous
  • impressive

Question 26

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atrocity
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  • brutal deed
  • couraeous act
  • strict and stern
  • desrespectful

Question 27

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augury
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  • a detailed plan
  • feeling hurt and depressed
  • a sign of what might happen in the future
  • winter

Question 28

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assiduous
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  • showing hard work, great care and perseverance
  • lack of care and concern
  • able to understand a situation quickly
  • analyse; evaluate

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assay
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  • relating to the stars
  • agree; accept
  • analyse; evaluate
  • fght

Question 30

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aspersion
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  • slanderous remark
  • noble ambition
  • seeker after position or status
  • assign, refer to

Question 31

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askew
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  • practicing self-denial; austere
  • sharpness (of temper)
  • crookedly; slanted; at an angle
  • slanderous remark

Question 32

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asperity
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  • desperate
  • sharpness (of temper)
  • anguish
  • filled with surprises

Question 33

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asinine
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  • naive
  • innocent
  • cheerful
  • stupid

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asceticism
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  • simple and not wanting to deceive
  • avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life
  • (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive
  • preventing infection; having a cleansing effect

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artifice
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  • preventing infection; having a cleansing effect
  • simple and not wanting to deceive
  • the ability to speak fluently and coherently
  • (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive

Question 36

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artisan
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  • a person extremely skilful in handicraft
  • a manually skilled worker
  • a creative person
  • a person specialises in certain profession

Question 37

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armada
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  • the jargon or slang of a particular group or class
  • a class of people who hold high social rank
  • a piece of music in an opera sung by one person
  • a large group of armed ships that fight wars at sea

Question 38

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argot
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  • the jargon or slang of a particular group or class
  • marshal; draw up in order
  • charge in court; indict
  • a piece of music in an opera sung by one person

Question 39

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arraign
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  • arrested
  • charge in court; indict
  • being in debt
  • marshal; draw up in order

Question 40

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aria
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  • sweet scent
  • adorn
  • fragrant
  • a piece of music in an opera sung by one person

Question 41

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arcane
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  • great enthusiasm or love
  • a typical example of something
  • group of closely located islands
  • mysterious and known only by a few people

Question 42

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archaic
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  • great enthusiasm
  • hard; strenuous
  • a typical example of something
  • antiquated

Question 43

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arboretum
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  • a covered passageway, usually lined with shops
  • public records; place where public records are kept
  • study of artifacts and relics of early mankind
  • place where different varieties of trees and shrubs are studied and exhibited

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appurtenances
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  • person with power to decide a matter in a dispute; judge
  • a possession or piece of property that is considered to be a typical feature of a particular way of living:
  • unreasonable or capricious; tyrannical
  • acquire; take possession of for one's own use

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apropos
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  • act as judge
  • with reference to
  • approval
  • respectful

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aphorism
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  • iron block used in hammering out metals
  • loss of speech due to injury or illness
  • a place where bees are kept
  • a short clever saying that is intended to express a general truth

Question 47

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aplomb
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  • indifferent
  • poise; composure
  • aggressive
  • proud

Question 48

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amorphous
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  • charm; talisman
  • shapeless; vague; indeterminate
  • abundant
  • causing insensitivity to pain

Question 49

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altercation
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  • entice; attract
  • conversational
  • noisy quarrel
  • reserved

Question 50

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agnostic
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  • pertaining to land or its cultivation
  • one who is skeptical of the existence of knowability of a god
  • highly excited
  • religious
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