Advanced Vocabulary Quiz for Seniors

What is the term for an abusive and bitter attack through speech or writing?

• Dichotomy

• Diatribe

• Diction

• Didactic

Which word describes a difference between two opposite things?

• Dichotomy

• Digress

• Disingenuous

• Disparate

What term refers to the clearness and effectiveness of enunciation when speaking, or choice of words?

• Diction

• Didactic

• Discern

• Eclectic

Which word means designed to teach people something?

• Digress

• Didactic

• Extrapolate

• Ethereal

What does it mean to go off on a tangent or leave the main subject?

• Discern

• Disingenuous

• Digress

• Emulate

Which term means to perceive or recognize something?

• Discern

• Disingenuous

• Formidable

• Hackneyed

Which term is used to describe someone who is not honest or sincere?

• Disingenuous

• Disparate

• Formidable

• Hackneyed

What word describes things that are different from each other or unlike?

• Disparate

• Eclectic

• Indolent

• Iconoclast

What does the abbreviation "e.g." stand for?

• That is

• For example

• And so on

• In other words

What word describes elements from a diverse range of sources?

• Erudite

• Eclectic

• Eschew

• Indolent