VOCABULARY TEST 23
(1) matrimony
1) egg-shaped
2) kindle
3) not natural
4) state of being married
(2) bereft
1) deprived of (something valuable)
2) pass safely through (a storm or difficult period)
3) nservatoire) school of the fine arts (especially music or drama)
4) improve
(3) multilingual
1) peak
2) having many languages
3) capricious
4) highly gifted child
(4) lien
1) intermediate
2) ) (of people or their behavior) respectful
3) legal claim or right on a property
4) marshal
(5) perforate
1) pierce
2) brief explanation of words used in the text
3) touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter
4) bad-tempered
(6) martyr
1) meal
2) one who has adopted a different religion or opinion
3) one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause
4) turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.)
(7) alliteration
1) repetition of beginning sound in poetry
2) cut or knock down (a tree or a person)
3) gain for the performance of service or labor
4) change voting district lines in order to favor a political party
(8) cloister
1) stubbornly wrong
2) nourish
3) monastery or convent
4) naive and trusting
(9) asunder
1) carefully contrived
2) remainder
3) humiliation
4) into parts
(10) agnostic
1) one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality
2) one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
3) minor crime
4) surrender something (stolen)
(11) incessant
1) weird
2) irritable
3) uninterrupted
4) incapable of producing young
(12) ramble
1) bleach
2) art and science of preparing and serving good food
3) wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)
4) a great quantity
(13) anachronism
1) split into opposite extremes or camps
2) shriveled
3) an error involving time in a story
4) dig into (to get stone)
(14) depreciate
1) lessen in value
2) making a harsh noise
3) pale
4) small stream
(15) sacrosanct
1) scowl
2) outward appearance
3) cancel
4) invioably sacred
(16) intimate
1) hint
2) of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal
3) not able to be pierced or entered
4) eerie
(17) bound
1) (of a person) bold
2) decayed and foul-smelling
3) lascivious
4) leap or spring
(18) salacious
1) lascivious
2) display ostentatiously
3) injury to body
4) saturate(soak thoroughly)
(19) genre
1) apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction, etc.
2) particular variety of art or literature
3) lack of proper respect or reverence
4) greatness (in size or extent)
(20) stalemate
1) hint
2) deadlock
3) influenced by personal feelings
4) quality of being deeply moving
(21) crone
1) hag
2) liberate
3) either of the correlated things
4) agent (sent on a mission to represent another)
(22) pendant(pendent
1) small bit or fragment
2) female warrior
3) refer
4) ) hanging down from something
(23) linger
1) prophetic
2) humiliation
3) loiter or dawdle
4) of low rank or position
(24) unseemly
1) unbecoming
2) small amount (of money)
3) landless agricultural worker
4) pretend
(25) toady
1) servile flatterer
2) quality of being true
3) environment
4) slow down
ANSWERS:
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