English Vocabulary Test

English Vocabulary Quiz

Quiz

 

1. 
   Which is the best synonym for transient?
   
   1.   Vicious
   2.   Temporary
   3.   Claiming
   4.   Focussed
2. Which of the following is considered a plural form of syllabus?
   1.   syllapodes
   2.   syllabuses
   3.   syllabalacra
   4.   syllabubs
3. Which is a synonym of cynosure?
   1.   exemplar
   2.   flaw
   3.   imperfection
   4.   worst
4. How did Nathan Bailey's 1727 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary define the word gymnologize?
   1.   to address students
   2.   to spend time in agymnasium
   3.   to give oration while running
   4.   to dispute naked
5. Which of the following is a definition for heuristic?
   1.   serving as an aid to learning
   2.   of the nature of bribery
   3.   relating to malpractices
   4.   pertaining to which unknowable
6. Both principal and principle come from the Latin word princeps.
   1.   true
   2.   false
7. Find an obscure word meaning desk from the following.
   1.   eschatocol
   2.   escritoire
   3.   Eschara
   4.   eschynite
8. What is the meaning of pedagogue?
   1.   Someone hired to take a test
   2.   A student
   3.   A teacher
   4.   Someone who eats their feet
9. The word Dystopia is defined as “an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives”; In what century did this word enter English?
   1.   18th
   2.   20th
   3.   19th
   4.   17th
10. Culture ("the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group") comes from a Latin word meaning ______.
    1.   to till
    2.   to mill
    3.   to kill
    4.   to fill
11. Plagiarize, "to steal and pass off as one's own (the ideas or words of another)," comes from plagiarius, a Latin word meaning ______.
    1.   kidnapper
    2.   schoolteacher
    3.   wine merchant
    4.   warrior
12. If you are saying that "my last semester was a total train wreck," it means you are employing a ______.
    1.   metaphor
    2.   litotes
    3.   paraleipsis
    4.   simile
13. which of the following was originally meaning bully?
    1.   teacher
    2.   eraser
    3.   student
    4.   sweetheart
14. Which of the following is an obsolete meaning of the word pedant?
    1.   a peacock
    2.   a schoolteacher
    3.   the losing player in a badminton game
    4.   a poet
15. which of the following words is a synonym of apprehensive?
    1.   egregious
    2.   trepidatious
    3.   shunny
    4.   whiskerfeathered