Confusing Vocabulary

Question 1

Precede

Answer 1

Comes before

Question 2

Are Preceded By

Answer 2

Goes after

Question 3

Aboriginal

Answer 3

Indigenous people of Australia

Question 4

Ascetic

Answer 4

Practice of self-discipline and abstention from indulgence for typically religious reasons

Question 5

Concede

Answer 5

Admit something is true or valid after denying it

Question 6

Stymie

Answer 6

Hindered or prevented

Question 7

Retrospective

Answer 7

Looking back on past issues or events

Question 8

Amalgation

Answer 8

Process of uniting or merging two companies

Question 9

Inert

Answer 9

Lacking the ability or strength to move

Question 10

Commensurate

Answer 10

Corresponds in size or degree with something (for example, a salary may commensurate with experience)

Question 11

Superfluity

Answer 11

An unnecessarily or excessively large amount of something

Question 12

Ambivalence

Answer 12

When you have mixed thoughts or feelings about someone or something

Question 13

Capitulation

Answer 13

The act of surrendering or ceasing to resist an opponent or demand

Question 14

Equivocal

Answer 14

Open to more than one interpretation

Question 15

Effusive

Answer 15

Expressing gratitude in a heartfelt manner

Question 16

Extant

Answer 16

(In the contexts of a document) still existing or surviving

Question 17

Arbitrary

Answer 17

On a random choice or personal whim

Question 18

Quasi-

Answer 18

Seemingly, apparently but not really

Question 19

Forestall

Answer 19

Prevent or obstruct by taking actions beforehand

Question 20

Acquiescence

Answer 20

Reluctant acceptance of something

Question 21

Anathema

Answer 21

Something or someone that one doesn’t like

Question 22

Volitional

Answer 22

Relating to the use of one’s will (as in someone decided to do it)

Question 23

Referenda

Answer 23

General Vote by the electorate on a single political issue