Vocabulary Quiz: Can You Name the Meaning of 10 Words Out of 12?
Free online printable quiz with multiple-choice questions (MCQ) without registration.
Compound words are all around us. Someone is always nagging at them, saying they could have been said in Russian. In some ways, of course, they're right. But, as it seems to us, memorizing new words is more benefit than harm. So we train our memory and expand our vocabulary.
The Vocabulary Quiz consists of only 15 questions. If you understand at least 10 of them, you're pretty good at vocabulary. Try your luck!
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1. And the playful word "vis-a-vis" is from French. What is its meaning?
Opponent
2. Many people are familiar with the word "hyperbole" from mathematics. What is its meaning in rhetoric?
Exaggeration
3. In medieval alchemy, the word "quintessence" referred to a certain fifth element, the subtlest element. And in modern parlance, in its figurative sense, it's ...
the most important, the essence of something
4. Anthophobia is a fear of flowers, apiophobia is a fear of bees and wasps. What are ailurophobes afraid of?
Cats
5. Idiosyncrasy to the smell of lilac is ...
its intolerance
6. Palinfrasia is ...
constant utterance of the same (parasitic) words
7. What state is the person in when he or she reaches ataraxia?
In a state of peace of mind and serenity
8. There's another French word for "equivoc". Its meaning is ...
a hint, understatement or ploy
9. With euphemisms we replace ...
coarse language
10. A truism is ...
a hackneyed truth
11. An a priori adverb can replace an expression ...
irrespective of experience
12. Escapade is capable of breaking patterns. It's ...
bold, defiant antics