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Question 1

dogged

Answer 1

what he lacks in natural talent he makes up for in dogged spirit: tenacious, determined, resolute, resolved, purposeful, persistent, persevering, single-minded, tireless; strong-willed, steadfast, staunch; formal pertinacious. ANTONYMS halfhearted.

Question 2

doldrums

Answer 2

a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression: the mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years.
• an equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.

Question 3

dolefully

Answer 3

expressing sorrow; mournful: a doleful look.

• causing grief or misfortune: doleful consequences.

Question 4

domain

Answer 4

1 they extended their domain: realm, kingdom, empire, dominion, province, territory, land.
2 the domain of art: field, area, sphere, discipline, province, world.

Question 5

Doppler effect

Answer 5

an increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. The effect causes the sudden change in pitch noticeable in a passing siren, as well as the redshift seen by astronomers.

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Question 6

dowdy

Answer 6

dowdy frocks and an unappealing hairstyle: unfashionable, frumpy, old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date, inelegant, shabby, frowzy. ANTONYMS fashionable.

Question 7

down

Answer 7

adjective
1 I’m feeling a bit down: depressed, sad, unhappy, melancholy, miserable, wretched, sorrowful,

adverb
1 they went down in the elevator: toward a lower position, downward, downstairs. ANTONYMS up.
2 she fell down: to the ground, to the floor, over. ANTONYMS up.

Question 8

drip line

Answer 8

refer wikipedia

Question 9

drogue

Answer 9

a device, typically conical or funnel-shaped with open ends, towed behind a boat, aircraft, or other moving object to reduce speed or improve stability.

Question 10

drone

Answer 10

verb
1 a plane droned overhead: hum, buzz, whirr, vibrate, murmur, rumble, purr.
2 he droned on about right and wrong: speak boringly, go on and on, talk at length; intone, pontificate; informal spout, sound off, jaw, spiel, speechify.
noun
1 the drone of aircraft taking off: hum, buzz, whirr, vibration, murmur, purr.
2 drones supported by taxpayers’ money: hanger-on, parasite, leech, passenger, bottom feeder; idler, loafer, layabout, good-for-nothing, do-nothing; informal lazybones, scrounger, sponger, freeloader, slacker.

Question 11

due process

Answer 11

fair treatment through the normal judicial system, esp. as a citizen’s entitlement.

Question 12

duplex

Answer 12

a house divided into two apartments, with a separate entrance for each.
• an apartment on two floors.

Question 13

dyslexia

Answer 13

other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence.

Question 14

dyspeptic

Answer 14

he never became the dyspeptic old man his father had been: bad-tempered, short-tempered, irritable, snappish, testy, tetchy, touchy, crabby, crotchety, grouchy, cantankerous, peevish, cross, disagreeable, waspish, prickly; informal on a short fuse, cranky, ornery

Question 15

dystopia

Answer 15

an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Compare with Utopia.

Question 16

earthy

Answer 16

1 an earthy smell: soil-like, dirtlike.
2 she was a simple, earthy girl: down-to-earth, unsophisticated, unrefined, simple, plain, unpretentious, natural.
3 Emma’s earthy language: bawdy, ribald, off-color, racy, rude, vulgar, lewd, crude, foul, coarse, uncouth, unseemly, indelicate, indecent, obscene; informal blue, locker-room, barnyard.

Question 17

ebb

Answer 17

verb
1 the tide ebbed: recede, go out, retreat, flow back, fall back/away, subside. ANTONYMS come in.
2 his courage began to ebb: diminish, dwindle, wane, fade away, peter out, decline, flag, let up, decrease, weaken, disappear. ANTONYMS increase, intensify.
noun
1 the ebb of the tide: receding, retreat, subsiding.
2 the ebb of the fighting: abatement, subsiding, easing, dying down, de-escalation, decrease, decline, diminution.

Question 18

ebullient

Answer 18

in an ebullient mood: exuberant, buoyant, cheerful, joyful, cheery, merry, jolly, sunny, jaunty, lighthearted, elated; animated, sparkling, vivacious, irrepressible; informal bubbly, bouncy, peppy, upbeat, chirpy, smiley, full of beans; dated gay. ANTONYMS depressed.

Question 19

ecology

Answer 19

the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

Question 20

ecosystem

Answer 20

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Question 21

ecotourism

Answer 21

tourism directed toward exotic, often threatened, natural environments, esp. to support conservation efforts and observe wildlife.

Question 22

ecstatic

Answer 22

the news of Sophie’s safe return made them ecstatic: enraptured, elated, in raptures, euphoric, rapturous, joyful, overjoyed, blissful; on cloud nine, in seventh heaven, beside oneself with joy, jumping for joy, delighted, thrilled, exultant; informal over the moon, on top of the world, blissed out.

Question 23

efficacious

Answer 23

formal a change in diet may be quite efficacious: effective, effectual, successful, productive, constructive, potent; helpful, beneficial, advantageous, valuable, useful.

Question 24

eke

Answer 24

I had to eke out my remaining funds: husband, use sparingly, be thrifty with, be frugal with, be sparing with, use economically; informal go easy on. ANTONYMS squander.
PHRASES
eke out a living they barely eked out a living: subsist, survive, get by, scrape by, make ends meet, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door, keep one’s head above water.

Question 25

elaborate

Answer 25

adjective
1 an elaborate plan: complicated, complex, intricate, involved; detailed, painstaking, careful; tortuous, convoluted, serpentine, Byzantine. ANTONYMS simple, plain.
2 an elaborate plasterwork ceiling: ornate, decorated, embellished, adorned, ornamented, fancy, fussy, busy, ostentatious, extravagant, showy, baroque, rococo, florid; informal fancy-schmancy. ANTONYMS simple, plain.
verb
both sides refused to elaborate on their reasons: expand on, enlarge on, add to, flesh out, put flesh on the bones of, add detail to, expatiate on; develop, fill out, embellish, embroider, enhance, amplify.

Question 26

electrode

Answer 26

a conductor through which electricity enters or leaves an object, substance, or region.

Question 27

elements

Answer 27

noun
1 an essential element of the game: component, constituent, part, section, portion, piece, segment, bit; aspect, factor, feature, facet, ingredient, strand, detail, point; member, unit, module, item.
2 there is an element of truth in this stereotype: trace, touch, hint, smattering, soupçon.
3 (elements) the elements of political science: basics, essentials, principles, first principles; foundations, fundamentals, rudiments; informal nuts and bolts, ABCs.
4 (elements) I braved the elements: weather, climate, meteorological conditions, atmospheric conditions; wind, rain, snow.

Question 28

elicit

Answer 28

your sarcastic remarks will no doubt elicit a negative response: obtain, draw out, extract, bring out, evoke, call forth, bring forth, induce, prompt, generate, engender, trigger, provoke; formal educe.

Question 29

elixir

Answer 29

a homemade elixir purported to enhance virility: potion, concoction, brew, philter, decoction, mixture; medicine, tincture; extract, essence, concentrate, distillate, distillation; literary draft.

Question 30

ellipsis

Answer 30

the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
• a set of dots indicating such an omission.

Question 31

elucidate

Answer 31

Sherwood’s diaries may help elucidate his motives: explain, make clear, illuminate, throw/shed light on, clarify, clear up, sort out, unravel, spell out; interpret, explicate; gloss. ANTONYMS confuse.

Question 32

embark

Answer 32

1 the passengers were not allowed to embark until 4:30: board ship, go on board, go aboard; informal hop on, jump on.
2 he embarked on a new career: begin, start, commence, undertake, set about, take up, turn one’s hand to, get down to; enter into, venture into, launch into, plunge into, engage in, settle down to; informal get cracking on, get going on, have a go/crack/shot at.

Question 33

emblematic

Answer 33

1 a situation emblematic of the industrialized twentieth century: symbolic, representative, demonstrative, suggestive, indicative.
2 emblematic works of art: allegorical, symbolic, metaphorical, parabolic, figurative.

Question 34

embryonic

Answer 34

1 an embryonic chick: fetal, unborn, unhatched; in utero.
2 an embryonic prodemocracy movement: rudimentary, undeveloped, unformed, immature, incomplete, incipient, inchoate; fledgling, budding, nascent, emerging, developing, early, germinal. ANTONYMS mature.

Question 35

enamored

Answer 35

she was secretly enamored of the prince: in love with, infatuated with, besotted with, smitten with, captivated by, enchanted by, fascinated by, bewitched by, beguiled by; keen on, taken with; informal mad about, crazy about, wild about, bowled over by, stuck on, hot for, sweet on, carrying a torch for, moonstruck by; literary ensorcelled by.

Question 36

endeavor

Answer 36

the company endeavored to expand its activities: try, attempt, seek, undertake, aspire, aim, set out; strive,

Question 37

endow

Answer 37

1 the CEO endowed a hospital for sick kids: finance, fund, pay for, provide for, subsidize, support financially, put up the money for; establish, found, set up, institute.
2 nature endowed fish with gills: provide, supply, furnish, equip, invest, favor, bless, grace, gift; give, bestow; literary endue.

Question 38

enormity

Answer 38

the enormity of the task: immensity, hugeness; size, extent, magnitude, greatness.

Question 39

enraptured

Answer 39

enraptured by the music: delight, enchant, captivate, charm, enthrall, entrance, bewitch, beguile, transport, thrill, excite, exhilarate, intoxicate, take someone’s breath away; informal bowl over, blow someone’s mind; literary ravish.

Question 40

entreat

Answer 40

my lord, I entreat you to believe me: implore, beg, plead with, pray, ask, request; bid, enjoin, appeal to, call on, petition, solicit, importune; literary beseech.

Question 41

environs

Answer 41

he environs of Milwaukee: surroundings, surrounding area, vicinity, purlieu; locality, neighborhood, district, region; precincts.

Question 42

envisage

Answer 42

can you envisage the factories of the future? imagine, contemplate, visualize, envision, picture; conceive of, think of; foresee.

Question 43

envoy

Answer 43

he was a special diplomatic envoy to Rome in 1639: ambassador, emissary, diplomat, consul, attaché, chargé d’affaires, plenipotentiary; nuncio; representative, delegate, proxy, surrogate, liaison, spokesperson; agent, intermediary, mediator; informal go-between; historical legate.

Question 44

epicenter

Answer 44

the point on the earth’s surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
• the central point of something, typically a difficult or unpleasant situation: the patient was at the epicenter of concern.

Question 45

epigram

Answer 45

a collection of humorous epigrams from old gravestones: witticism, quip, jest, pun, bon mot; saying, maxim, adage, aphorism, apophthegm, epigraph; informal one-liner, wisecrack, (old) chestnut.

Question 46

epithet

Answer 46

Rome befits its epithet “the Eternal City”: sobriquet, nickname, byname, title, name, label, tag; description, designation; informal moniker, handle; formal appellation, denomination.

Question 47

epoch

Answer 47

England’s Tudor epoch: era, age, period, time, span, stage; eon.

Question 48

erosion

Answer 48

erosion has dramatically affected the topography here over the past two hundred years: wearing away, abrasion, attrition; weathering; dissolution, corrosion, decay; deterioration, disintegration, destruction.

Question 49

escapade

Answer 49

an act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure.

Question 50

eschew

Answer 50

he firmly eschewed political involvement: abstain from, refrain from, give up, forgo, shun, renounce, steer clear of, have nothing to do with, fight shy of; relinquish, reject, disavow, abandon, spurn, wash one’s hands of, drop; informal kick, pack in; formal forswear, abjure.