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What is the connotation of the word “benevolent”?

  1. Selfish or manipulative in disguise, like the evil mastermind, London

  2. Often used to describe people or actions that actively promote happiness in others, like Frane

  3. Strict and authoritarian

  4. Associated with weakness or naivety

Often used to describe people or actions that actively promote happiness in others, like Frane

100
  1. Which word can replace all the underlined words in the following sentences:


    1. The city street was a _____ of honking cars, shouting vendors, and blaring music.

    2. As the orchestra tuned their instruments, the auditorium filled with a _____ noise of notes.

    3. Frane’s classroom erupted into a _____ of giggles, screams, and clattering pencils.

  1. Gnarled

  2. Cacophony

  3. Refracted

  4. Scarcely

Cacophony

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Which of the sentences uses the word “melancholy” correctly?

  1. She was so melancholy that she danced wildly at the party.

  2. He fixed the car with melancholy precision.

  3. There’s a melancholy beauty in abandoned places—whispers of lives once lived.

  4. The spicy food left a melancholy aftertaste.

There’s a melancholy beauty in abandoned places—whispers of lives once lived.

100
  1. Which picture best represents a colonnade?


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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.

  1. Redress

  2. Phospherescent 

  3. Bewildered

  4. Perfunctorily 

Redress

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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?

  1. Adequately 

  2. Commonly

  3. Scarcely

  4. Sufficiently

Scarcely

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What is the connotation of the word “bewildered”?

  1. The word means extremely happy or excited.

  2. The word carries a slightly negative or overwhelmed tone, implying helplessness.

  3. The word implies anger or frustration.

  4. 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?

  1. Misinterpretation

  2. Stupidity

  3. Misunderstanding

  4. Sagacity

Sagacity

200

Which word is a synonym for “perpetuate”?

  1. Continue

  2. Neglect

  3. Discontinue

  4. Let Go

Continue

300

What is the connotation of the word “centrifuge”?

  1. The word evokes rapid spinning or mechanical intensity.

  2. The word connotes slow, gentle mixing.

  3. The word implies emotional or artistic expression.

  4. 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”?

  1. The cat slept peacefully on the windowsill.

  2. She baked a delicious cake for the party.

  3. Elina and Larissa engaged in a fierce debate.

  4. 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”?

  1. Unawareness 

  2. Percipience 

  3. Neglect

  4. Thoughtlessness

Percipience

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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”?

  1. She scrolled through her phone, listening to a podcast.

  2. In Renaissance fairs, performers often entertain crowds with old folk songs.

  3. Larissa gave a speech to the class.

  4. Frane played hard metal to encourage a calmer atmosphere for the test.

In Renaissance fairs, performers often entertain crowds with old folk songs.

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  1. What is an antonym for the word implementation?

    1. Utilization

    2. Exertion

    3. Discharge

    4. Failure

Failure

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What is an antonym for proclivities?

  1. Leaning

  2. Liableness 

  3. Cup of tea

  4. Hate

Hate

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What is the connotation of the word “interrelated”?

  1. The word suggests the understanding of true random or unrelated.

  2. The word implies the idea of hierarchical.

  3. The word carries a neutral/slightly positive tone of interdependence.

  4. 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”?

  1. Contrition 

  2. Punishment

  3.  Reward

  4. Self-flagellation 

Reward

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Which song best represents the word “inviolable”?

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. Indestructible by Disturbed

I'll have you know

That I've become

Indestructible

Determination that is incorruptible

  1. 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

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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?

  1. Organic

  2. Cerebral

  3. Physiological

  4. Substantial

Cerebral

500

Which song best represents the word “dissonance”?

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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”?

  1. 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"

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

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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

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