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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
Tough
Ugly
Easy
Vile
Poor
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
Overwhelming
Underweight
Underwhelming
Egregious
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
Sonorous
Querulous
Pulchritudinous
Sordid
Feisty
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
Jejune
Festering
Excited
Dappled
Striped
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
Icy
Tepid
Indulgent
Lenient
Ludicrous
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
Rotund
Geriatric
Puerile
Outlandish
Shriveled
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
Ample
Ghastly
Redundant
Scrupulous
Extenuating
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
Choleric
Slanting
Rectilinear
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
Trivial
Pregnant
Dreary
Serpentine
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
Stately
Apposite
Scathing
Plump
Baronial
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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