32 Questions
What is the term for a person who believes in fate?
Fatalist
Which term refers to a cinema show held in the afternoon?
Matinee
What is the term for expressing feelings or opinions in a very loud or forceful way?
Voluble
Which term describes someone who is likely to change in a very sudden or extreme way, possibly becoming dangerous or out of control?
Volatile
What is the term for a government by the officials?
Bureaucracy
Which term is used to describe a handwriting that cannot be read?
Illegible
What is the term for opponents or enemies that are very difficult to defeat?
Nemesis
What is the term for original copies of a play, book, piece of music, etc., before those have been printed?
Manuscript
Which term is used for persons living at the same time?
Contemporaries
What is the term for parts of the earth's surface that are directly above the place where an earthquake starts?
Epicentre
Which term is used for people who can vote in an election?
Electorate
What is the term for orders that must be followed?
Diktat
What term describes the most successful or powerful group of people?
Regalia
What do you call a person who lives in solitude?
Recluse
Which term refers to giving a brief summary of something?
Recapitulate
What is the term for indirect and usually bad results of an action or event?
Repercussion
Which word describes the action of killing a king?
Regicide
What term best describes someone who is very careful about behaving properly and doing things accurately?
Punctilious
Which word best describes the act of hitting someone or something very hard with a stick, whip, etc.?
Thrash
What do we call a political system based on government of men by God?
Thearchy
What is the term for the qualities of being very similar or equal?
Symmetry
A talisman is associated with:
Objects believed to have magic powers and cause good things to happen
Which term refers to the act of dieing because one is unable to breathe?
Suffocate
Truculent best describes a person who is:
Easily annoyed or angered and likely to argue
What is the term for a person who believes in fate?
Fatalist
Which term refers to a person who can make himself at home in all countries?
Cosmopolitan
What word describes a place where orphans live?
Orphanage
A person who speaks two languages is known as what?
Bilingual
What is the term for a supposed cure for all diseases or problems?
Panacea
What do you call a person who feeds on flesh?
Carnivorous
Which term describes an assembly of hearers at a lecture or concert?
Audience
What term refers to a state of perfect balance?
Equilibrium
Study Notes
One-word Substitutions
- Paraphernalia: objects, activities, or ideas used as symbols of something else
- Primitive: belonging to, or seeming to come from, an early time in the very ancient past
- Fatalist: someone who believes in fate
- Ambidextrous: able to use either hand with ease
- Numismatist: someone who collects coins as a hobby
Personality Traits
- Fastidious: one who is hard to please (very selective in his habits)
- Atheist: one who does not believe in the existence of God
- Introvert: one who does not express himself freely
- Cynosure: one who is a center of attraction
- Cacographer: one who is bad in spellings
- Epicure: one who is for pleasure of eating and drinking
- Agnostic: one who is not sure about God's existence
- Convalescent: one who is recovering health after illness
- Insolvent: one who is unable to pay his debts
- Ascetic: one who leads an austere life
- Auditor: one who makes an official examination of accounts
- Egotist: one who often talks of his achievements
- Fugitive: one who runs away from justice
- Indefatigable: one who shows sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
- Cynic: one who sneers at the beliefs of others
- Anthropologist: one who studies the evolution of mankind
- Invigilator: one who supervises in the examination hall
Miscellaneous
- Ambiguous: open to more than one interpretation, not having one obvious meaning
- Manuscript: original copies of a play, book, piece of music, etc., before those have been printed
- Contour: outlines or outer edges of something
- Amnesia: partial or total loss of memory
- Ghetto: parts of cities in which members of a particular group or race live, usually in poor conditions
- Epicentre: parts of the earth's surface that are directly above the place where an earthquake starts
- Aisle: passages between rows of seats in a building, an aircraft, or train
- Destitute: people who are extremely poor
- Electorate: people who can vote in an election
- Epoch: periods of time that are very important in history
- Contemporaries: people living at the same time
- Linchpin: people or things that are the most important part of an organization, a plan, etc., because everything else depends on them or it
- Catalyst: people or things that cause a change
- Psephologist: one who studies elections and trends in voting
More Miscellaneous
- Punctilious: very careful about behaving properly and doing things in a correct and accurate way
- Pungent: having a strong, sharp taste or smell
- Quack: the sound of ducks
- Quintessence: the most successful or powerful group of people
- Quixotic: not very practical or realistic
- Radio Jockey: one who presents a radio program
- Ramshackle: in a very bad condition and needing to be repaired
- Rebate: partial refunds to someone who has paid too much for tax, rent, or a utility
- Rebuff: refusing (something, such as an offer or suggestion) in a rude way
- Recapitulate: giving a brief summary of something
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