Synonym Cards (general; from Kaplan's)

Question 1

abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse

Answer 1

Abbreviated Communication

Question 2

abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

Answer 2

Act Quickly

Question 3

abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalward, sustenance

Answer 3

Assist

Question 4

bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish

Answer 4

Bad Mood

Question 5

dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, proselyte, tyro

Answer 5

Beginner, Amateur

Question 6

burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent

Answer 6

Beginning, Young

Question 7

acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

Answer 7

Biting (as in wit or temperament)

Question 8

audacious, courageous, dauntless

Answer 8

Bold

Question 9

banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite

Answer 9

Boring

Question 10

bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobrate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

Answer 10

Carousal

Question 11

capricious, mercurial, volatile

Answer 11

Changing Quickly

Question 12

counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious

Answer 12

Copy

Question 13

aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride, derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate

Answer 13

Criticize, Criticism

Question 14

bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith

Answer 14

Death, Mourning

Question 15

abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

Answer 15

Denying of Self

Question 16

authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical

Answer 16

Dictatorial

Question 17

abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid

Answer 17

Difficult to Understand

Question 18

defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative

Answer 18

Disgusting, Offensive