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Advanced Vocabulary: Describing People and Behaviors

Test your knowledge of advanced English vocabulary words that describe personality types, psychological conditions, and human behaviors.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to a speaker who does not use more words than necessary?

  1. Laconic
  2. Taciturn
  3. Inarticulate
  4. Garrulous
  5. Verbose
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to a man who excessively caters to, worships and submits to the most outlandish or outrageous demands of his wife?

  1. Henpecked
  2. Uxorious
  3. Dipsomaniac
  4. Pyromaniac
  5. Arsonist
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words is synonymous with alcoholism?

  1. Sorority
  2. Dipsomania
  3. Kleptomania
  4. Pyromania
  5. Incendiarism
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to people who have delusions about their invincibility?

  1. Megalomaniac
  2. Pyromaniac
  3. Iconoclast
  4. Hypochondriac
  5. Martinet
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A person who has morbid anxiety about his or her health is a /an __________

  1. hypochondriac
  2. martinet
  3. tyro
  4. virtuoso
  5. sycophant
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to a person who is a strict disciplinarian?

  1. Virago
  2. Chauvinist
  3. Lecher
  4. Dilettante
  5. Martinet
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A person who sneers at convention and tradition is a/an __________

  1. iconoclast
  2. agnostic
  3. atheist
  4. polytheist
  5. pantheist
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to an old man in a ruling position?

  1. Matriarch
  2. Termagant
  3. Patriarch
  4. Virtuoso
  5. Patricide
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to the morbid compulsion to steal?

  1. Nymphomania
  2. Kleptomania
  3. Dipsomania
  4. Megalomania
  5. Pyromania
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words is used to refer to the act of killing one’s wife?

  1. Sycophancy
  2. Patrimony
  3. Patricide
  4. Matricide
  5. Uxoricide
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to a person who tends to fixate obsessively over one thing?

  1. Hypochondriac
  2. Iconoclast
  3. Monomaniac
  4. Agnostic
  5. Sycophant
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to an accomplished musician?

  1. Dilettante
  2. Tyro
  3. Virtuoso
  4. Termagant
  5. Matriarch
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to the act of starting fires for revenge?

  1. Pyromania
  2. Incendiarism
  3. Arson
  4. Megalomania
  5. Hypochondria
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to people who are sociable, genial, cordial and affable?

  1. Vivacious
  2. Convivial
  3. Magnanimous
  4. Naive
  5. Garrulous
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following words can be used to refer to a person who fears shut-in or crowded places?

  1. Arsonist
  2. Agoraphobe
  3. Claustrophobe
  4. Megalomaniac
  5. Acrophobe

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