VOCABULART TEST 130


(1) clout
1) beginner
2) of the law and its administration
3) curse
4) great influence (especially political or social)



(2) epic
1) infamy
2) long heroic poem, novel, or similar work of art (celebrating the feats of a hero)
3) subordinating the individual to the state
4) businessperson (who assumes the risk of a business venture)



(3) dinghy
1) exceeding ordinary limits
2) small boat (often ship's boat)
3) invention
4) entertain



(4) memoir
1) interfering
2) memoirs
3) ravenous
4) lure



(5) grandiose
1) speech or writing with no meaning
2) change in direction
3) tending to include all
4) affectedly grand



(6) ecliptic
1) relating to space
2) path of the sun and the planets
3) full-bosomed
4) sharpen



(7) estimable
1) very important
2) person of high rank or position
3) (of a person) worthy of esteem
4) stun as with a blow or shock



(8) lagoon
1) thick-skinned animal
2) quarrel
3) soften by soaking in liquid
4) shallow body of water or lake near a sea



(9) temporize
1) useless
2) person with power to decide a matter in dispute
3) regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times
4) gain time as by postponing an action



(10) dour
1) wooden enclosure or pen
2) sullen
3) group of animals
4) go down on one's knee(s)



(11) endorse
1) mouthlike opening
2) approve
3) greediness for wealth
4) effort



(12) hover
1) hang about
2) fully filled
3) arise from
4) medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain



(13) diversion
1) deride or provoke
2) quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)
3) act of turning aside
4) straightforward



(14) abase
1) large group
2) elliptic
3) flowing together
4) lower



(15) supplant
1) low, guttural, menacing sound (as of a dog)
2) program as for trial
3) take the place of unfairly
4) irritable



(16) contrivance
1) something contrived
2) rise or fly high in the air
3) absentminded
4) not working



(17) apocalyptic
1) prophetic
2) lacking self-restraint
3) legal official of high rank
4) ornate



(18) culpable
1) harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill
2) carrion-eating birds
3) deserving blame
4) impertinence



(19) entreat
1) decorative edge of hanging threads
2) plead
3) quick and active
4) place under water



(20) turncoat
1) purely spiritual
2) traitor
3) state of being undecided
4) leave helpless on a deserted island or coast



(21) brunt
1) eliminate from consideration
2) short quick cut with scissors
3) main impact or shock (of an attack or blow)
4) discord



(22) ambiguous
1) de) front or face (of building)
2) loose sleeveless outer garment
3) exclamation
4) unclear or doubtful in meaning



(23) gesticulation
1) public speaker
2) untrustworthy person
3) motion
4) having or causing lustful desires and thoughts



(24) hazardous
1) not literal but metaphorical
2) dangerous
3) worthless products of an endeavor
4) main wooden stem of a tree



(25) muddle
1) decisive
2) graze
3) make stupid in mind
4) confuse


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