VOCABULARY TEST 28


(1) solemnity
1) marked by inventive skill
2) seriousness
3) indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said)
4) handle used to move boat's rudder (to steer)



(2) censure
1) driving forward
2) blame
3) separate
4) (of a condition) wretched



(3) hackneyed
1) mushy(sentimental) and gushy
2) commonplace
3) student of the history and science of humankind
4) dispute



(4) wade
1) secret recess or vault usually used for burial
2) mutually destructive
3) walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement
4) shorten



(5) calculated
1) worthless products of an endeavor
2) deliberately planned
3) hereditary nobility
4) half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (resembling a goat), portrayed as wanton(unrestrained) and cunning



(6) rhapsodize
1) assign
2) loss of memory
3) slightly sour (in taste or manner)
4) speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner



(7) wrongheaded
1) increase in number by producing young
2) crafty
3) stubbornly wrong
4) adhesive



(8) mass
1) Christian religious ceremony
2) shield
3) weaken
4) sorcery



(9) scavenge
1) eye defect which prevents proper focus
2) standard
3) motherly
4) hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food



(10) gaudy
1) (of buildings) likely to break or fall apart
2) lustful
3) particle removed by a file
4) flashy



(11) syllogism
1) vow
2) absolutely necessary
3) logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion
4) binding



(12) gusto
1) giving off an odor
2) disagreement of opinions causing strife within a group
3) eager enjoyment
4) doubts



(13) recuperate
1) respectful
2) recover
3) separated
4) neat



(14) concatenate
1) pertaining to heat
2) link as in a chain
3) cule) extremely small
4) yield to



(15) aggregate
1) live together
2) distasteful
3) sum
4) enjoy



(16) bigot
1) one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics)
2) persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury)
3) base of a tree trunk left after the rest has been cut down
4) place of safety



(17) downcast
1) wild tumult(commotion)
2) disheartened
3) approach and speak first to a person
4) superfluous



(18) enclave
1) exclamation
2) territory enclosed within an alien land
3) n) large kettle
4) reverse the order or position of



(19) egress
1) exit
2) turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.)
3) bow (to show respect and obedience)
4) put in danger



(20) commodious
1) assume an affected pose
2) formal systematic inquiry
3) natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else)
4) spacious and comfortable



(21) solecism
1) endless
2) stubborn
3) nonstandard grammatical construction
4) reconstruct (a sentence, story, statue, etc.)



(22) plethora
1) study of language or words
2) unconquerable
3) excess
4) prepare by mixing or combining



(23) exuberance
1) grow rapidly
2) overflowing abundance
3) conclusion of an oration
4) flashy



(24) expunge
1) cancel
2) fault
3) rankle
4) given to diligent study



(25) fell
1) abnormal or deviant
2) wetland
3) loathe
4) cut or knock down (a tree or a person)


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