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D.Education

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question 1

pedant

A person who denies that God exists
B stick; staff; wand
C meticulous person; fastidious person; strict person; fussy person
D increase; profit; growth; addition

question 2

countenance

A garland of flowers or leaves hung between two points
B face; appearance; features; encouragement; support
C speech by one person
D conversation which is amusing and not serious; tease; joke

question 3

predilection

A thoughtlessness; state of complete forgetfulness
B favorable opinion arrived at beforehand; affinity; liking; fondness
C trickery; deception; scheming
D very thin gauzelike fabric or structure; cobweb

question 4

pseudonym

A act of erecting (a building); meaning
B fictitious name; pen name
C harsh rebuke; abusive condemnation; denunciation
D incoherent speech; specialized vocabulary in certain fields

question 5

sagacity

A nautical unit of depth; unit of length equal to six feet
B shrewdness; cleverness; wisdom
C historical records; archives; chronicles
D flattering speech or act; persuasion

question 6

hoax

A courteous respect for; honor; esteem; reverence
B affected or silly smile; smirk
C pompous speech; pretentious words; trite cliches
D trick or deception; a practical joke

question 7

anachronism

A admirer of the fine arts; dabbler; amateur; nonprofessional
B maze; complicated network of passages; something confusing or bewildering
C injury inflicted in turn for one received; retaliation; revenge
D something out of place in time (e.g. an airplane in 1492); something that is obsolete or out of date

question 8

demeanor

A point directly overhead in the sky; highest point; climax
B hardship; suffering; misfortune; crisis
C body (natural or artificial) which revolves around a larger body; generally a planet
D behavior; bearing; conduct; appearance

question 9

jargon

A incoherent speech; specialized vocabulary in certain fields
B compulsive thought; fixation; excessive preoccupation
C person who lives in a foreign country
D regret for wrongdoing; remorse; uneasiness of conscience

question 10

prelude

A place offering shelter and retreat; refuge
B disorderly quarrel; tumult; riot; skirmish
C introduction; forerunner
D conclusion reached by reasoning from data or premises; speculation

question 11

convince

A persuade
B contradict
C comply
D connect

question 12

extirpate

A to attract; to tempt; to charm
B to draw out; to extract from
C to refer indirectly to something; to hint
D to root out; to destroy totally; to eradicate

question 13

flaunt

A to smile in a silly or affected way; to smirk
B to foil; to thwart; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle
C to display or wave boastfully
D to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite

question 14

ensue

A to start; to provoke; to inflame; to incite
B to follow; to result
C to speak angrily or bitterly; to protest forcefully; to rant
D to cancel by authority; to terminate; to abolish

question 15

concede

A to guess; to speculate; to surmise; to hypothesize; to infer
B to postpone; to put off to another time; to delay; to hold back
C to surrender; to admit; to give up; to yield
D to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; to slander

question 16

sleazy

A carefully attentive; diligent; persistent; hard-working
B mutual; having the same relationship to each other; common; joint
C flimsy and cheap; shabby; cheap
D separate; individual

question 17

fathom

A to give up; to put off until later
B to approve; to support; to tolerate; to permit
C to understand; to get to the bottom of; to measure the depth of
D to imprison; to detain; to jail

question 18

abandon

A to use for one's selfish purpose
B to leave behind; to give something up
C to exercise self control; to keep from; to refrain from
D to calm; to lessen in severity; to mollify; to relieve

question 19

consecrate

A to dupe; to play a trick on; to deceive
B to variegate; to make different; to increase the product range of a company; to offer new products
C to declare sacred; to dedicate; to bless
D to restate in a brief; concise form; to sum up; conclude; to summarize

question 20

deprecate

A to speak or write at great length; to describe in full
B to express disapproval of; to protest against; to disparage; belittle
C to speak out against; to condemn; to accuse; to censure
D to forecast; to foretell; to diagnose