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How wide is your vocabulary? Test it with this quiz.

Quiz ID:	#1727
Fun:	(2.24)
Difficulty:	(1.8)
Category:	Humanities > Linguistics
Created By:	Therulerofthem

#1 What is the meaning of the word 'consanguineous'?

Being related by blood
A constant or annoying noise
Something red and shiny
Something that has a sickening taste

#2 Which of the following words is a mental disorder in which the victim believes that (s)he is an ox?

Malfeasance
Cynosure
Boanthropy
Apostasy

#3 The meaning of the word 'risible' is 'capable of causing laughter'.

True
False

#4 Which of these words is synonymous with the word 'jeering'?

Protean
Badinage
Gainsay
Frisson

#5 The word 'calescent' describes something that is cooling down.

True
False

#6 The word 'ineffable' means:

Incapable of being expressed in words
Unable to be done, regardless of how much effort is put into it
Immune to insults; has a high self-esteem
Not ready to begin

#7 'Suasion' means 'The act of advising or attempting to convince'.

True
False

#8 Which of these words does not mean 'boasting'?

Rodomontade
Grandiloquence
Bravado
Exigent

#9 'Chimerical' means imaginary or wildly fanciful.

True
False

#10 The word 'mendicant' is a synonym of:

Beggar
King
Doctor
Customer

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Definitions

#1 What is the meaning of the word 'consanguineous'?

#2 Which of the following words is a mental disorder in which the victim believes that (s)he is an ox?

#3 The meaning of the word 'risible' is 'capable of causing laughter'.

#4 Which of these words is synonymous with the word 'jeering'?

#5 The word 'calescent' describes something that is cooling down.

#6 The word 'ineffable' means:

#7 'Suasion' means 'The act of advising or attempting to convince'.

#8 Which of these words does not mean 'boasting'?

#9 'Chimerical' means imaginary or wildly fanciful.

#10 The word 'mendicant' is a synonym of:

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