Are you a Vocabulary Virtuoso?

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About This Quiz

You love words! You love grammar, and spelling, and all things words, but is your vocabulary as good as you think it is? Find out if you are really a vocabulary virtuoso!

Have you done any reading today?

Does this quiz count?

I've read parts of a book.

A little

I've read several pages.

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What does the word 'averse' mean?

A section in the bible

Unfavorable

Opposed to

Who knows?

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Which of these things do you enjoy the most?

Working out

Dancing

Playing Scrabble

Reading ancient philosphy

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Do you listen to audio books?

Occasionally

Never! I only read books!

Only when I don't have time to read.

What's an audio book?

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Which of these words means 'a misleading appearance'?

Isle

Illusion

Allusion

I don't know.

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Which of these words means 'to avoid'?

Altar

I don't know.

Allude

Elude

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Did you do well in English class?

I got the best grades in the class!

I did okay.

I struggled.

I never went to class.

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Which of these words means 'to receive'?

Except

Accent

They're all wrong!

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Which of these words means 'the act of rising or climbing'?

Assent

Descent

Ascension

Decent

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Which of these people was a famous poet?

Robert Michum

Robert Frost

Rob Reiner

Robert Maplethorpe

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Which of these words means 'a lesson from a story or fable'?

Morass

Morale

Moron

Moral

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Which of these was a book by Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Hound

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A Tale of Two Cities

Vanity Fair

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Which of these things means 'praise or flattery'?

Compliment

Complement

Competent

Component

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Which of these means 'the absence of war'?

Pristene

Peace

Piece

Peas

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Which of these words means 'to take a survey'?

Candy

Canvas

Canvass

Convoy

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Which of these words means 'to give advice'?

Compas

Compact

Council

Counsel

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Which of these words means 'a sense of morality'?

Conscience

Conscript

Conjecture

Conscious

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Which of these means 'illegal or forbidden'?

Elicit

Illicit

Illustrative

Ill

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Which of these words means 'about to happen'?

Inate

Eminent

inimatable

Imminent

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Which of these words means 'to look furtively'?

Peak

Peek

Pique

What does 'furtively' mean?

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What is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' about?

Hunting advice

Racial injustice

It's a cook book.

It's about an international spy.

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Which of these people was a famous poet?

Laurence Olivier

Sylvia Plath

Howard Cosell

Orson Welles

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Which of these words means 'to surround'?

Imbibe

Antelope

Envelope

Envelop

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Which of these means 'standing still'?

Stationery

Stagnant

Staionary

Stiffled

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Which of these words means 'to rule'?

Reign

Rain

Rein

Raw

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Which of these people is an esteemed author?

Thomas Hardy

Tom Wolfe

Tom Jackson

Tommy Hilfiger

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Which of these words means 'compassionate'?

Humerous

Humorous

Humane

Human

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Which of these words means 'courage or spirit'?

Metal

Meddle

Middle

Mettle

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Which of these means 'modest'?

Discreet

Dislocated

Distempered

Disreet

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Which of these is a part of a flower?

Pedal

Petal

Portal

Peddle

FINISH QUIZ

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