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Advanced Vocabulary and Idioms Quiz

Test your knowledge of advanced English vocabulary, foreign phrases, and idiomatic expressions

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

AU REVOIR

  1. Bonjour
  2. Adieu
  3. Hello
  4. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ACCENTUATE

  1. Accelerate
  2. Annotate
  3. Emphasize
  4. Allude
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

GAOL

  1. Goal
  2. Apartment
  3. Penitentiary
  4. Haven
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

CONFABULATE

  1. Debate
  2. Altercation
  3. Informal discussion
  4. Reticent
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

DENIZEN

  1. Vagabond
  2. Rover
  3. Inhabitant
  4. Citizen
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ADULATION

  1. Infatuation
  2. Adultery
  3. Adulteration
  4. None of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ALMA MATER

  1. One's old profession
  2. One's native
  3. One's old school
  4. None of these
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ACHILLES' HEEL

  1. A sprinter
  2. A winner
  3. An acrobat
  4. None of these
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

PUGILIST

  1. A professional archer
  2. A professional boxer
  3. A professional actor
  4. A professional musician
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

COVENANT

  1. Bargain
  2. Debenture
  3. Visa
  4. Will
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

BILLET-DOUX

  1. Magnum opus
  2. A love letter
  3. A debenture
  4. A will
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

VENDETTA

  1. An insurgent
  2. An avenger
  3. A wanderer
  4. An absconder
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

PHILTRE

  1. Medicine
  2. Love potion
  3. Anaesthesia
  4. Filter
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

EXHUME

  1. Incinerate
  2. Entomb
  3. Cremate
  4. Disinter
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

MUSOPHOBIA

  1. Fear of music
  2. Fear of mammals
  3. Fear of rodents
  4. Fear of mosquitoes
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ENDORSE

  1. Fend off
  2. Plump for
  3. Admonish
  4. Reprove
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

EXCRUCIATE

  1. Appease
  2. Exalt
  3. Placate
  4. Torment
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

CANONIZE

  1. To declare a deceased person to be a saint
  2. To declare a war
  3. To declare an emergency
  4. None of these
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

NOM DE PLUME

  1. Synonym
  2. Pseudonym
  3. Antonym
  4. Homonym
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

VALET

  1. Steward
  2. Manservant
  3. Chamberlain
  4. Treasurer
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

ICHTHYOLOGY

  1. Study of sea shells
  2. Study of fishes
  3. Study of literature
  4. Study of minerals
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

HONORARIUM

  1. Knighthood
  2. Fellowship
  3. An unclaimable sum
  4. None of these
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning for the word given below.

PENCHANT

  1. Antagonism
  2. Aversion
  3. Proclivity
  4. Hostility
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning to the word given below.

FOSSE

  1. Moot
  2. Moor
  3. Moat
  4. Puddle
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: Choose the option closest in meaning to the word given below.

CONNIVE

  1. Convince
  2. Conspicuous
  3. Complicated
  4. Conspire

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