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100
What is the connotation of the word “benevolent”?
Selfish or manipulative in disguise, like the evil mastermind, London
Often used to describe people or actions that actively promote happiness in others, like Frane
Strict and authoritarian
Associated with weakness or naivety
Often used to describe people or actions that actively promote happiness in others, like Frane
100
Which word can replace all the underlined words in the following sentences:
The city street was a _____ of honking cars, shouting vendors, and blaring music.
As the orchestra tuned their instruments, the auditorium filled with a _____ noise of notes.
Frane’s classroom erupted into a _____ of giggles, screams, and clattering pencils.
Gnarled
Cacophony
Refracted
Scarcely
Cacophony
100
Which of the sentences uses the word “melancholy” correctly?
She was so melancholy that she danced wildly at the party.
He fixed the car with melancholy precision.
There’s a melancholy beauty in abandoned places—whispers of lives once lived.
The spicy food left a melancholy aftertaste.
There’s a melancholy beauty in abandoned places—whispers of lives once lived.
100
Which picture best represents a colonnade?
100
Which word can replace all the underlined words in the following sentences:
a. The company issued a public apology and financial compensation to _____ the harm caused by its defective product.
b. The new policy aims to _____ the mental harm accrued in Frane’s classroom management approach.
c. She filed a lawsuit to _____ the discrimination she faced at work.
Redress
Phospherescent
Bewildered
Perfunctorily
Redress
200
Connect the similar. For 9-12 use the 4 options and give the letter that is the best synonym.
Cohesiveness Close-Knit Quality
Bleak Ablaze
Totalitarianism Dreary
Phosphorescent Absolutism
Close Knit Quality
Dreary
Absolutism
Ablaze
200
Which word does not fit the group?
Adequately
Commonly
Scarcely
Sufficiently
Scarcely
200
What is the connotation of the word “bewildered”?
The word means extremely happy or excited.
The word carries a slightly negative or overwhelmed tone, implying helplessness.
The word implies anger or frustration.
The word has a positive understanding, like being pleasantly surprised.
The word carries a slightly negative or overwhelmed tone, implying helplessness.
200
Which word does not belong?
Misinterpretation
Stupidity
Misunderstanding
Sagacity
Sagacity
200
Which word is a synonym for “perpetuate”?
Continue
Neglect
Discontinue
Let Go
Continue
300
What is the connotation of the word “centrifuge”?
The word evokes rapid spinning or mechanical intensity.
The word connotes slow, gentle mixing.
The word implies emotional or artistic expression.
The word is associated with natural growth.
The word evokes rapid spinning or mechanical intensity
300
Which of the following situations would use the word “contention”?
The cat slept peacefully on the windowsill.
She baked a delicious cake for the party.
Elina and Larissa engaged in a fierce debate.
The sky was clear and blue on a sunny day, streaming into the windows of Frane’s class.
Elina and Larissa engaged in a fierce debate.
300
What is a synonym for “cognition”?
Unawareness
Percipience
Neglect
Thoughtlessness
Percipience
300
Connect the similar. For 19-22 use the 4 options and give the letter that is the best synonym.
Mandates Never-ending
Perpetual Silliness
Folly Inadequately
Perfunctorily Directive
Directive
Never-ending
Silliness
Inadequately
300
Which of the following situations would use the word “minstrel”?
She scrolled through her phone, listening to a podcast.
In Renaissance fairs, performers often entertain crowds with old folk songs.
Larissa gave a speech to the class.
Frane played hard metal to encourage a calmer atmosphere for the test.
In Renaissance fairs, performers often entertain crowds with old folk songs.
400
What is an antonym for the word implementation?
Utilization
Exertion
Discharge
Failure
Failure
400
What is an antonym for proclivities?
Leaning
Liableness
Cup of tea
Hate
Hate
400
What is the connotation of the word “interrelated”?
The word suggests the understanding of true random or unrelated.
The word implies the idea of hierarchical.
The word carries a neutral/slightly positive tone of interdependence.
The word connotes the sense of temporary.
The word carries a neutral/slightly positive tone of interdependence.
400
What is an antonym for the word “penance”?
Contrition
Punishment
Reward
Self-flagellation
Reward
400
Which song best represents the word “inviolable”?
Fragile by Sting
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the color of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant to clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
Money by Pink Floyd
Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly, but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so it's said
It's the root of all evil today
Indestructible by Disturbed
I'll have you know
That I've become
Indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
The Night We Met by Lord Huron
I had all and then most of you
Some and now none of you
Take me back to the night we met
I don't know what I'm supposed to do
Haunted by the ghost of you
Indestructible by Disturbed
500
Connect the opposites. For 2-5 use the 4 options and give the letter that is the best antonym.
Gnarled Straight
Trajectory Inertia
Refracted Beautify
Wondrous Ordinary
Beautify
Inertia
Straight
Ordinary
500
Which word does not belong?
Organic
Cerebral
Physiological
Substantial
Cerebral
500
Which song best represents the word “dissonance”?
Count on Me by Bruno Mars
If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea
I'll sail the world to find you
If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see
I'll be the light to guide you
Come Together by The Beatles
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola
He say, "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now
Let’s Stay Together by Al Green
I, I'm I'm so in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me
'Cause you make me feel so brand new
And I want to spend my life with you
Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead
And either way you turn, I'll be there
Open up your skull, I'll be there
Climbing up the walls
It's always best when the light is off
It's always better on the outside
Fifteen blows to the back of your head
Fifteen blows to your mind
Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead
500
Which song best represents the word “quaver”?
The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
Holocene by Bon Iver
And at once, I knew I was not magnificent
Hulled far from the highway aisle
Jagged vacance, thick with ice
But I could see for miles, miles, miles
To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra
There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home
Yellow by Coldplay
Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah, they were all yellow
The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
500
Connect the opposites. For 24-27 use the 4 options and give the letter that is the best antonym.
Filigree Cowardice
Audacity Crude
Imperceptibility Blunt
Honed Blatancy
Crude
Cowardice
Blatancy
Blunt