AFOQT Words 2

Question 1

acumen

Answer 1

keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters; sharpness, astuteness, caginess, foxiness, shrewdness

Question 2

adamant

Answer 2

inflexible

Question 3

altercation

Answer 3

controversy

Question 4

assent

Answer 4

consent

Question 5

assiduous

Answer 5

persistent, active, busy, bustling, diligent, employed, engaging, laborious, occupied, sedulous

Question 6

attrition

Answer 6

act of wearing down

Question 7

belligerent

Answer 7

inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, combativeness, aggressive, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, brawly, chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant, disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike, combative

Question 8

bizarre

Answer 8

odd, extravagant, eccentric; involving sensational contrasts or incongruities, absurd, fantastic, crazy, fanciful, foolish, insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild

Question 9

capitulate

Answer 9

to cease resisting, surrender, acquiesce surrender, yield, concede, give in, relent, succumb

Question 10

censure

Answer 10

judgment involving condemnation sternly; official reprimand; commination, condemnation, denunciation, excoriation, objurgation, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof, stricture

Question 11

charlatan

Answer 11

one making usually showy pretenses to knowledge or ability; quack; fraud; faker; imposter; hoaxer; hambug

Question 12

conducive

Answer 12

helpful

Question 13

construe

Answer 13

to analyze the arrangement and connection of words; to understand or explain the sense or intention, usually in a particular way or with respect to a given set of circumstances; interpret, clarify, explain, demonstrate, explicate, elucidate, expound, illuminate, illustrate, simplify, spell out, unriddle

Question 14

contrition

Answer 14

feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming; repentance, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse, rue, self-reproach

Question 15

counteract

Answer 15

neutralize

Question 16

credible

Answer 16

believable, plausible, presumptive, probable

Question 17

deleterious

Answer 17

harmful

Question 18

deportment

Answer 18

manner in which one conducts behavior, actions, address, bearing, comportment, conduct, demeanor, geste

Question 19

deterrent

Answer 19

to turn aside, discourage, prevent from acting; inhibit, restrain, discourage, dissuade, inhibit

Question 20

dilated

Answer 20

enlarged

Question 21

enervate

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lacking physical, mental or moral vigor; weaken, castrate, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, geld, lobotomize, petrify

Question 22

extant

Answer 22

currently or actually existing, not destroyed or lost, living, alive, around, existent

Question 23

fallacious

Answer 23

embodying a fallacy, tending to deceive or mislead misleading, delusive, illogical, illegitimate, inconsequent, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unsound false

Question 24

fortnight

Answer 24

two weeks

Question 25

ghastly

Answer 25

terrifyingly horrible to the senses; intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, objectionable; resembling a ghost; very frightening, appaling, atrocious, awful, dreadful, frightful, horrible, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrid, lurid, macabre, monstrous

Question 26

incidental

Answer 26

casual

Question 27

increment

Answer 27

something gained or added; one of a series of regular consecutive additions; amount or degree by which something changes an increase; accretion, accrual, addendum, addition, augmentation, boost, expansion, gain, increase, plus, proliferation, raise, rise

Question 28

indigent

Answer 28

impovershed, deficient poor

Question 29

indolent

Answer 29

lazy

Question 30

innate

Answer 30

existing in, belonging to, native, inborn, inherent, built in, constitutional, inherent

Question 31

intrepid

Answer 31

characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance fearless, bold, courageous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, gustsy, stout, stalwart, valiant, valorous, undaunted, brave

Question 32

itinerant

Answer 32

traveling from place to place traveling

Question 33

notorious

Answer 33

well known

Question 34

noxious

Answer 34

physically harmful or destructive to living beings, constituting a harmful influence on mind or behavior; insalubrious, noisome, unhealthy, sickly, unhealthful, unwholesome, disagreeable, obnoxious

Question 35

officious

Answer 35

meddlesome, kind obliging, dutiful, busy interfering, intruding, obtrusive, intrusive, presuming, snoopy, prying

Question 36

plight

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an unfortunate, difficult, or precarious situation; solemnly given pledge, engagement; engage; unfavorable condition, situation or predicament

Question 37

rebuff

Answer 37

snub

Question 38

recalcitrant

Answer 38

obstinately defiant of authority or restraint; difficult to manage or operate; not responsive; resistant; balky, contrary, recusant, refractory, restive, unruly, defiant, insubordinate, intractable

Question 39

regale

Answer 39

to entertain sumptuously, feast with delicacies; to give pleasure or amusement to, delight, disport, divert, amuse, solace

Question 40

relinquish

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withdraw or retreat from, leave behind, give up, release abandon, yield, cede, deliver, hand over, surrender

Question 41

scrupulous

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having moral integrity, punctiliously exact; strict or careful in an ethical sense; conscionable, ethical, honest, just, principled

Question 42

spurious

Answer 42

FALSE

Question 43

subterfuge

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escape or evade; deception, chicane, trickery, wile, artifice

Question 44

sullen

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angrily silent

Question 45

surreptitious

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acquired by stealth, clandestine stealthy, furtive, covert, sneak, secret, undercover

Question 46

symptom

Answer 46

sign

Question 47

terse

Answer 47

smoothly elegant, polished; using few words; devoid of superfluity; concise, short, brusque, aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, sententious, pithy, laconic, succinct, compact, elliptical pointed

Question 48

turbid

Answer 48

thick or opaque with roiled sediment, heavy with smoke or mist, deficient in clarity or purity, characterized by or producing obscurity; cloudy, muddy, riley, foul

Question 49

vacillate

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to sway through lack of equilibrium; fluctuate, oscillate, waver in mind, dither, falter, halt, scruple, stagger, teeter, hesitate, wobble, indecisive

Question 50

vigilant

Answer 50

watchful

Question 51

vindictive

Answer 51

disposed to seek revenge; intended to cause anguish or hurt; vengeful, spiteful, hurt

Question 52

obstinate

Answer 52

perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion; not easily subdued, remedied, or removed; adamant, dogged, headstrong