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Example Question #831 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
HARDY
Easy
Ugly
Vile
Poor
Tough
Tough
The adjective "hardy" means robust, fit and healthy, strong and tough. Additionally, "vile" means disgusting or wicked.
Example Question #832 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CORPULENT
Overweight
Underwhelming
Underweight
Egregious
Overwhelming
Overweight
The adjective "corpulent" means fat, overweight. Additionally, "egregious" means particularly bad and shocking, especially terrible.
Example Question #833 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
OROTUND
Feisty
Querulous
Sonorous
Pulchritudinous
Sordid
Sonorous
"Orotund" is a synonym for "sonorous," pleasant-sounding. "Pulchritudinous" describes visual beauty. "Sordid" means filthy, and "querulous" means irritable, cranky. "Feisty" is another word for spunky, spirited.
Example Question #834 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
STRIATED
Festering
Striped
Jejune
Dappled
Excited
Striped
"Striated" is another word for "striped." "Dappled" means spotted or marked with splotches. "Jejune" means dull and uninteresting. "Festering" means diseased and rotting. "Excited" is a synonym for "enthusiastic" and "eager."
Example Question #835 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
GELID
Tepid
Ludicrous
Icy
Indulgent
Lenient
Icy
"Gelid" means frigid, "icy," very cold. "Tepid," which means lukewarm, is another temperature word. "Ludicrous" is a synonym for "ridiculous," absurd. "Indulgent" and "lenient" are synonyms.
Example Question #836 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
WIZENED
Geriatric
Rotund
Puerile
Shriveled
Outlandish
Shriveled
"Wizened" means "shriveled," age-worn, and wrinkled, and is often used to describe elderly people or things. It is not, however, a direct synonym for "geriatric" (elderly). "Puerile' means juvenile, immature. "Outlandish" means bizarre or strange. "Rotund" is a synonym for "plump."
Example Question #837 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CAPACIOUS
Extenuating
Scrupulous
Ample
Redundant
Ghastly
Ample
The adjective "capacious" means spacious, roomy, having more than enough room. This is closest in meaning to "ample" which means having more than enough of. Additionally, "extenuating" means (of circumstances) explaining and excusing; "redundant" means no longer needed, made unnecessary; "scrupulous" means either careful and meticulous or honest and principled; "ghastly" means horrible, grim, dire, horrific.
Example Question #838 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
OBLIQUE
Corrupt
Slanting
Rectilinear
Choleric
Curvaceous
Slanting
"Oblique" means "slanting" or crooked. "Rectilinear" means having straight lines, and "curvaceous" means having curves. "Corrupt" is a synonym for "depraved." "Choleric" means angry or irritable.
Example Question #839 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
GRAVID
Wizened
Serpentine
Dreary
Pregnant
Trivial
Pregnant
"Gravid" mean "pregnant," either literally with child or figuratively (as in a gravid pause). "Wizened" means withered and shriveled, and "trivial" means trifling, unimportant. "Serpentine" is a synonym for "winding" or tortuous. "Dreary" is a synonym for "dismal."
Example Question #840 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ROTUND
Plump
Scathing
Baronial
Apposite
Stately
Plump
"Rotund" means chubby or plump. "Baronial" and "stately" are both synonyms for "grand." "Scathing" means blistering. "Apposite" means apt or appropriate.
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