VOCABULARY TEST 52
(1) suitor
1) decay
2) man who is courting a woman
3) binding agreement between two groups or people
4) bend forward and down
(2) clasp
1) hold firmly within arms
2) confirm
3) imitation
4) composed
(3) invalidate
1) infallibility
2) weaken
3) speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner
4) hit quickly with the flat part of the hand
(4) querulous
1) hard but easily broken
2) given to complaining
3) mutually destructive
4) wrongdoing
(5) puny
1) assuage or satisfy (thrust)
2) pertaining to a germ
3) hostile feeling or intent
4) tiny
(6) extraneous
1) not essential
2) time for rest
3) unconquerable
4) pithy
(7) seismic
1) procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages
2) delicate
3) unrefined
4) pertaining to earthquakes
(8) anomalous
1) abstruse
2) resulting from compulsion
3) abnormal
4) narrow in scope or outlook
(9) sodden
1) thoroughly soaked
2) defeat
3) prevent
4) stubborn
(10) polemical(polem
1) tropical hurricane or cyclone
2) ic) aggressive in verbal attack
3) insane
4) put into a lower or worse place
(11) primary
1) first in rank or importance
2) exclamation
3) agree
4) staff officer assisting the commander
(12) snip
1) unification
2) person who verbally harasses others
3) doing evil
4) short quick cut with scissors
(13) libretto
1) premonition of evil
2) state of being nameless
3) (of a heart or machine) beat rapidly or violently
4) text of an opera or oratorio
(14) capsize
1) tiresome dwelling on a subject
2) analysis
3) frenzy
4) (of a boat) turn over
(15) legislature
1) legislating branch of government
2) state of being immovable
3) resonant
4) old-fashioned
(16) forerunner
1) unsatisfied
2) lie
3) government by a privileged few
4) predecessor
(17) interim
1) (particular form of) political organization
2) meantime
3) last stop of railroad
4) useless
(18) articulate
1) obscurity
2) bizzare
3) effective
4) person convicted of a grave crime
(19) emanate
1) food
2) behavior
3) issue forth
4) large wave of water
(20) ellipsis
1) dissolve
2) act stupidly
3) reply
4) omission of words from a text
(21) grouse
1) insolent
2) complain
3) equivalent in effect or value
4) (of a skin or complexion) dark
(22) abstemious
1) grieve
2) pertaining to country people
3) sparing in eating and drinking
4) any ulcerous sore
(23) obsessive
1) mechanism that imitates actions of humans
2) action of moving secretly or unseen
3) arise from
4) related to thinking about something constantly
(24) stout
1) rather fat
2) period of ideal or peak condition
3) plunder
4) serving to complete something
(25) outstrip
1) deep dish for serving soup
2) outrun
3) capable of maintaining life
4) utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement
ANSWERS:
(1)2 (2)1 (3)2 (4)2 (5)4 (6)1 (7)4 (8)3 (9)1 (10)2 (11)1 (12)4 (13)4 (14)4 (15)1 (16)4 (17)2 (18)3 (19)3 (20)4 (21)2 (22)3 (23)4 (24)1 (25)2
