Best Word A
Word that identifies the longest period of time.
A) biennial
B) diurnal
C) millenium
D) nocturne
What is millennium?
Thomas Hardy, in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd, refers to a game played on a site "consecrated from time _______________ ."
A) extempore
B) immemorial
C) millennial
D) neoclassical
What is immemorial?
Word which refers to youth.
A) immemorial
B) neophyte
C) senescence
D) superannuation
What is neophyte?
Synchronize : simultaneous ::
A) sojourn : temporary
B) demur : agreeable
C) chronicle : episodic
D) temporize : adaptive
E) extemporize : improvised
What is E) extemporize : improvised?
Word which refers to "malicious burning."
A) cauterization
B) incendiarism
C) pyromania
D) scintillation
What is pyromania?
Word that means "delay."
A) anachronism
B) moratorium
C) obduracy
D) sojourn
What is moratorium?
A) anachronism
B) memorabilia
C) senescence
D) synchrony
What is anachronism?
Word that is most likely to be the title of a poem or a piece of music?
A) chronicle
B) diurnal
C) neoclassical
D) nocturne
What is nocturne?
Novice : superannuated ::
A) surly : demurring
B) dour : reserved
C) neophyte : senescent
D) anachronistic : timely
E) diurnal : weekly
What is C) neophyte : senescent?
Word which can be a synonym for "incendiary."
A) caustic
B) effervescent
C) inflammatory
D) pontifical
What is inflammatory?
Word that does not apply specifically to writing.
A) annals
B) chronicles
C) memorabilia
D) memoirs
What is memorabilia?
John Wycliffe in 1374 argued that because Christ during his life upon earth was of all men the poorest, casting off worldly authority, it behooved the Pope to surrender his _________ power and authority.
A) diurnal
B) immemorial
C) obdurate
D) temporal
What is temporal?
Word that means "unyielding."
A) demurring
B) dour
C) obdurate
D) surly
What is obdurate?
Temperance : moderates ::
A) insubordination : complies
B) ordinance : orders
C) apostle : alters
D) mutability : changes
E) aspersion : spreads
What is D) mutability : changes?
Word which best describes the loyalty of fans at an international soccer match?
A) confluent
B) cosmological
C) effervescent
D) fervid
What is fervid?
Word that refers to improvised speech.
A) annals
B) extempore
C) neologism
D) temporizing
What is extempore?
A) asterisk
B) insubordinate
C) cosmopolite
D) stolid
What is cosmopolite?
After his _________ driving caused an accident, Jaime's parents forbade him to use the car.
A) inordinate
B) outré
C) temperate
D) temerarious
What is temerarious?
Perturbation : calm ::
A) temerity : anger
B) turbidity : clarity
C) penultimate : end
D) temperance : kindness
E) rectitude : fierceness
What is B) turbidity : clarity?
"Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a _____________." —John Milton, Paradise Lost
A) pyromaniac
B) marinade
C) cormorant
D) scintilla
What is cormorant?
Word that applies to the abbreviated form scuba for self-contained underwater breathing.
A) neologism
B) neophyte
C) nova
D) synchrony
What is neologism?
"The men of culture are the true __________ of equality." —Matthew Arnold
A) outré
B) insubordinates
C) apostles
D) mutants
What are apostles?
Word which can mean both "muddy" and "confused."
A) perturbed
B) stolid
C) transmuted
D) turbid
What is turbid?
Rectify : correction ::
A) ordain : demand
B) constellate : cluster
C) transmute : translation
D) disperse : dissemination
E) perturb : conflict
What is D) disperse : dissemination?
Word that combines church construction and sailing in its derivation.
A) flux
B) marinade
C) nave
D) pyre
What is nave?