VOCABULARY TEST 40


(1) leonine
1) meanly stingy
2) like a lion
3) native
4) obscurity



(2) lace
1) cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe)
2) informal discussion
3) (of something) plainly expressed
4) climate



(3) annex
1) person who enjoys his own pain
2) government by a privileged few
3) build
4) attach



(4) serendipity
1) ordinary
2) gift for finding valuable things by accident
3) offensive in odor or flavor
4) notoriously bad



(5) skinflint
1) miser
2) depart secretly and hide
3) person interested mostly in external objects and actions
4) black magic



(6) conflagration
1) something that discourages or deters
2) great fire
3) green crust on old bronze works or copper
4) (of a bird) sing



(7) squalor
1) rudeness without any sense of shame
2) separate
3) condition of being squalid
4) rankle



(8) obtuse
1) ability to foresee future happenings
2) something fit to be eaten
3) blunt
4) rustic



(9) aesthetic
1) evil spirit
2) make discontented
3) artistic
4) protruding(sticking out)



(10) sedulous
1) imprison
2) achieve by cleverness or trick
3) played in an abrupt manner
4) diligent



(11) sedate
1) composed (with no excitement)
2) clothe
3) decayed and foul-smelling
4) restore to proper condition (health or useful life)



(12) sequester
1) pertaining to conversational or common speech
2) correct
3) slang
4) isolate



(13) metrical
1) slight knowledge
2) climb by crawling with difficulties
3) metric
4) medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain



(14) industrious
1) inborn
2) diligent
3) arrest (a criminal)
4) set free



(15) impecunious
1) tiresome dwelling on a subject
2) curious
3) without money
4) twisting



(16) comprehensive
1) get one's bearings
2) point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth
3) broad
4) comfort in sorrow or trouble



(17) superficial
1) support
2) stout
3) of the surface
4) reach a necessary standard



(18) mute
1) silent
2) satisfy to the full
3) reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass)
4) quarrelsome



(19) cognate
1) having a common origin
2) bear fruit
3) settle a dispute through the services of an outsider
4) crisis



(20) fluctuate
1) voters represented by an elected official
2) waver
3) agreeable
4) private secret meeting



(21) herpetologist
1) one who studies reptiles
2) reservoir or water tank
3) fall apart into tangles
4) express condolences



(22) plumb
1) exactly vertical
2) causing sharp pain to the mind
3) act of keeping watch
4) ty) quality of being unsophisticated



(23) composure
1) home
2) slang
3) mental calmness
4) forceful



(24) swerve
1) deviate
2) secret
3) praising
4) having great weight



(25) irreconcilable
1) remove water from
2) impossible to reconcile
3) wandering
4) lie


ANSWERS:
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