VOCABULARY TEST 30
(1) vituperative
1) violation (of a rule or regulation)
2) confuse
3) purest and highest embodiment
4) abusive
(2) deputize
1) work or appoint as a deputy
2) goodness
3) interpret incorrectly
4) deceive
(3) expeditious
1) filled (with something unpleasant)
2) superiority of power, quantity, etc.
3) done with speed
4) dwarf
(4) battalion
1) announce
2) army unit made up of four or more companies
3) false belief
4) broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing
(5) sway
1) swing from side to side
2) pertaining to speculative philosophy
3) celebrity (in a specific field)
4) sit on in order to hatch
(6) nuance
1) essence
2) shade of slight difference in meaning or color
3) resistant to
4) lustful
(7) multifarious
1) varied
2) aqueduct
3) hang about/around
4) inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)
(8) epicurean
1) businessperson (who assumes the risk of a business venture)
2) believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided
3) difficult condition
4) attempt to gain
(9) apposite
1) appropriate
2) dry up
3) a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played
4) mysterious
(10) wistful
1) sadly thoughtful (because of desires or memories)
2) (of a liquid) thick and sticky
3) (of a person) truthful
4) specialist in classifying (animals, etc.)
(11) contagion
1) infection (by contact)
2) contradict
3) approval
4) small cavern
(12) catholic
1) (of likings and interests) universal
2) quarrelsome
3) offensive
4) shrill, trumpetlike sound
(13) allegory
1) flexible
2) something hinted at or suggested
3) narrow valley with steep sides
4) story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols
(14) consign
1) scrap of cloth
2) place where a river can be crossed on foot
3) below the threshold of conscious perception
4) send to a person or place for sale
(15) gadfly
1) divided into two branches
2) animal-biting fly
3) behavior
4) pastoral song
(16) scotch
1) trip and almost fall
2) stamp out(put an end to)
3) similarity
4) deduce
(17) temperament
1) compelling charm
2) characteristic frame of mind
3) make whole
4) (of something bad) highly conspicuous
(18) voluble
1) fond of books and reading
2) (place or scene of) complete disorder or ruin
3) money
4) fluent
(19) blowhard
1) done with speed
2) familiar with
3) talkative boaster
4) heterogeneous mixture
(20) disjunction
1) act or state of separation
2) take in food or drink with one's tongue
3) arrival
4) pertaining to the woods or the country
(21) vitiate
1) objectionable
2) spoil the effect of
3) having no equal
4) work (esp. musical composition)
(22) gale
1) nonentity
2) windstorm
3) make (a liquid) less concentrated
4) unbeliever (with respect to a particular religion)
(23) inevitable
1) talkative boaster
2) small chamber used for sleeping or work
3) lifeless
4) unavoidable
(24) hindmost
1) ability to move spontaneously
2) without a material body
3) move or swing back and forth
4) furthest behind
(25) sacrilegious
1) plead
2) deadly
3) desecrating
4) prototype
ANSWERS:
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