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Example Question #89 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SOLICITOUS
Ingenuous
Concerned
Sordid
Seditious
Innocuous
Concerned
"Solicitous" means concerned and caring. "Ingenuous" means naive and childlike, while "innocuous" means harmless. "Seditious" is a synonym for "treasonous." "Sordid" is a synonym for "filthy."
Example Question #90 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
INDULGENT
Lenient
Instructive
Terrifying
Opulent
Debilitated
Lenient
"Indulgent" means "lenient," liberal, permissive. "Instructive" is a synonym for "instructional" or educational. "Terrifying" means very frightening. "Debilitated" means extremely weakened, enervated. "Opulent" means lavish, luxurious, and rich.
Example Question #991 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
QUIXOTIC
Idealistic
Immanent
Foreign
Pessimistic
Distraught
Idealistic
"Quixotic," a word taken from the Spanish novel Don Quixote, means "idealistic" (often hopelessly or foolishly so). This is a near antonym for "pessimistic." "Foreign" means strange or exotic. "Distraught" is a synonym for "distressed," and "immanent" is a synonym for "inherent."
Example Question #952 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PANGLOSSIAN
Optimistic
Fallacious
Careless
Smug
Despondent
Optimistic
"Panglossian," taken from a novel by Voltaire, is a synonym for "overly optimistic." "Careless" is a synonym for "inattentive" or even reckless. "Despondent" means despairing, and "fallacious" means fictitious or erroneous. "Smug" means self-satisfied.
Example Question #953 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CHOLERIC
Prideful
Ravenous
Irritable
Musical
Frenzied
Irritable
"Choleric" means "irritable," ill-tempered, or irascible. "Ravenous" means starving, voracious. "Prideful" is a synonym for "proud" or disdainful, depending on the context. "Musical" is, of course, the adjective form of "music" and often describes someone with talent at music. "Frenzied" is a synonym for "hurried," frantic, or frenetic.
Example Question #954 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PRURIENT
Speculative
Ebullient
Lustful
Joyful
Ravenous
Lustful
"Prurient" means "lustful," salacious. "Ravenous" means hungry, voracious. "Speculative" is another word for conjectural. "Ebullient" means joyful or exultant.
Example Question #955 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ADAMANT
Doleful
Grim
Insistent
Flustered
Anxious
Insistent
"Adamant" means inflexible, unwavering, or "insistent." "Flustered" means agitated or unsettled, and "anxious" means nervous. "Grim" means stern, forbidding, or ghastly. "Doleful" is another word for "disconsolate."
Example Question #956 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
RUEFUL
Spurious
Wintry
Stingy
Dubious
Regretful
Regretful
"Rue" is regret and contrition, but often with a slightly amusing tinge. "Dubious" means doubtful. "Spurious" means false or fictitious. "Wintry" is the adjective form or "winter" and is usually a synonym for cold and snowy. "Stingy" means miserly, cheap.
Example Question #957 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOCIFEROUS
Effervescent
Imperturbable
Clamorous
Lucid
Gravid
Clamorous
"Vociferous" means "clamorous," vocal, and vehement. "Imperturbable" is another word for unflappable, unable to be upset. "Lucid" means clear, and "gravid" means pregnant or swollen. "Effervescent" is bubbly.
Example Question #958 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
EFFUSIVE
Fastidious
Fulsome
Timorous
Debonair
Quiescent
Fulsome
The adjective "effusive" means unrestrained or excessively enthusiastic in praise of something. This is closest in meaning to "fulsome" which means excessively complimentary. Additionally, "quiescent" means at rest, inactive; "debonair" means charming and sophisticated; "timorous" means easily scared and shy; "fastidious" means hard to please, overly concerned with details, meticulous.
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