Word Meanings Test

WHAT YOUR SCORE MEANS

This test is for practice only, so you should not regard your result as of importance chiefly because the test was not taken under proper test conditions. Your performance can also be distorted if you have a cold, or have not slept well. International students or those from ethnic minorities may be disadvantaged in this type of test, due to language and cultural differences. If your first language is not English, your score may be lower than native English speakers. Your degree subject may change your performance: scientists may do better on mathematical tests and Humanities students on verbal tests.

Finally, if you are taking the test on a mobile phone or other touch screen device, you may take longer to input your answers.

Score

• 36 or above. This is an above average score compared to other UK graduates who have taken the test.

• 25 - 35. This is in the average group compared to other UK graduates who have taken this test.

• 24 or below. This is below the typical score of UK graduates who have taken the test, but remember that a number of factors may have distorted your score - see above for some of these factors.

ANSWERS

1) Chortle Laugh

2) Discrepancy Inconsistency

3) Trudge Walk wearily

4) Odious Dislikable

5) Paradox Self-contradictory statement

6) Renege Break a promise

7) Assuage Soothe

8) Pragmatic Practical

9) Reticent Restrained

10) Salubrious Wholesome

11) Subterfuge Deception

12) Ubiquitous Omnipresent

13) Intractable Unsolvable

14) Truculent Savage

15) Vortex Whirlpool

16) Vex Annoy

17) Immolate Fire sacrifice

18) Ignominious Shameful

19) Hyperbole Exaggeration

20) Foible Weakness

21) Macabre Gruesome

22) Malevolent Hostile

23) Spurious Fake

24) Puissant Powerful

25) Mellifluous Sweet

26) Lachrymose Tearful

27) Mollify Appease

28) Expurgate Purge

29) Celerity Speed

30) Clandestine Secret

31) Bellicose Warlike

32) Defenestrate Throw from window

33) Pusillanimous Lacking courage

34) Termagant Quarrelsome woman

35) Crepuscular Twilight

36) Disgruntled Unhappy

37) Sinecure Paid job with little work

38) Ptarmigan Type of bird

39) Sepulchral Belonging to a tomb

40) Palimpsest Reused parchment

41) Turpitude Depravity

42) Tryst A meeting

43) Diatribe Denunciation

44) Masticate Chew