Synonym test B
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Synonym test B is a series of 20 questions designed to test your knowledge of the language and your ability to quickly identify words that have the same or very similar meanings. In each case choose just the two words from the six words provided that are closest in meaning.
You have 20 minutes in which to solve the 20 questions.
1 .chop, gnaw, grate, sever, chew, destroy
2. inimitable, corresponding, matchless, surpassed, mature, imposing
3. delegate, advise, identify, recruit, adjust, mobilise
4. boorish, unchaste, stable, impure, unjust, bizarre
5. workaday, prosaic, feasible, easy, special, effective
6. unassailable, kind, inveterate, entrenched, contrary, convoluted
7. truncate, abandon, misuse, relinquish, rectify, denounce
8. snappish, ordinary, cursory, shrewd, sardonic, hurried
9. severe, opinionated, crude, dogmatic, unprincipled, vocal
10. progress, orbit, travel, run, encircle, align
11. orchestrate, display, employ, defeat, sustain, score
12. conspicuous, virulent, wild, profane, noxious, rancorous
13. just, somewhat, yet, once, now, moreover
14. elegant, serene, sophistic, shameful, sincere, fallacious
15. alter, assist, educate, facilitate, dream, cultivate
16. horizontal, unconscious, encompassed, submissive, supine, feral
17. farm, fare, style, food, firm, variety
18. guide, shepherd, farmer, shelter, carry, relocate
19. retreat, conclude, alight, circulate, call, getaway
20. intellect, symbol, rank, savour, genre, type