Vocabulary Mastery Test

Group 1

• Serious and sincere

• Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

• Showing a lack of respect

• Easily understood

• Epiphany

• Gauche

• Churlish

• Usurp

• Socially awkward or tactless

• Clever or cunning

• Generous and kind

• Calm and composed

• Polite and courteous

• Rude and mean-spirited

• Generous and giving

• Intelligent and wise

• To take a position of power or importance illegally or by force

• To support or advocate for something

• To give up or relinquish

• To argue or debate

• Chicanery

• Auspicious

• Antebellum

• Belie

• Unfavorable or unlucky

• Conducive to success; favorable

• Uncertain or doubtful

• Ordinary or common

• A period before a war

• A period after a war

• A time of peace

• A time of economic prosperity

• To contradict or misrepresent

• To support or confirm

• To explain or clarify

• To agree or comply

• Vehement

• Filibuster

• Xenophobia

• Reciprocal

• A prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly

• A formal agreement between two parties

• A short, informal speech

• A written declaration of intent

• Xenophobia

• Hubris

• Impeach

• Irony

• Given, felt, or done in return

• One-sided or unilateral

• Unrelated or disconnected

• Temporary or fleeting

• Homogenous

• Diverse

• Complex

• Unique

• Excessive pride or self-confidence

• Modesty or humility

• Fear or anxiety

• Calmness or tranquility

• To charge a public official with misconduct

• To praise or commend

• To elect or appoint

• To support or endorse

• Irony

• Laissez faire

• Loquacious

• Plagiarize

• A policy of letting things take their own course, without interfering

• A strict regulatory approach

• An authoritarian regime

• A cooperative or collaborative effort

• Loquacious

• Taciturn

• Reticent

• Reserved

• To take someone else's work or ideas and pass them off as one's own

• To create original content

• To cite sources correctly

• To collaborate with others