VOCABULARY TEST 54
(1) rasp
1) (of a sound) grate on (eg. nerves)
2) tear made by rending
3) fleeting or transitory
4) lustful
(2) implausible
1) (esp. of a woman's behavior) capricious
2) strip a priest or minister of church authority
3) me) gay
4) unlikely (to be true)
(3) plausible
1) sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)
2) conceivably true
3) habitual return to crime (even after being punished)
4) animals of a period or region
(4) fiat
1) low, guttural, menacing sound (as of a dog)
2) command
3) difficult condition
4) occurring at the proper time or season
(5) importunate
1) flow in drops or in a thin stream
2) lie
3) urging
4) calm and unexcitable
(6) aspersion
1) tending toward the center
2) error
3) slanderous remark
4) devoted to the pleasures of the sense
(7) incrustation
1) in name only
2) hard coating or crust
3) plot outline
4) reject bluntly
(8) impregnable
1) relentless
2) invulnerable
3) desire
4) decode
(9) amoral
1) life after death
2) spoil the appearance of
3) approve
4) nonmoral
(10) satellite
1) fit for growing crops
2) brutal deed
3) essential or main point
4) small body revolving around a larger one
(11) august
1) surround with armed forces
2) washing
3) impressive
4) tired or uninterested by surfeit
(12) charm
1) quality of pleasing
2) reduce
3) stratagem(deceptive scheme)
4) varied
(13) wanderlust
1) strong longing to travel
2) refer indirectly
3) ceremony conferring holy orders
4) give a personal guarantee
(14) wean
1) accustom a baby not to nurse
2) eager for knowledge
3) narrate or tell (a story)
4) having importance
(15) macabre
1) morally pure
2) detached plant shoot used in grafting
3) gruesome
4) in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord
(16) tout
1) move furtively and secretly
2) small roofed structure for storage and shelter
3) confer
4) promote or publicize (one's goods or service)
(17) scourge
1) easily approachable
2) lash
3) petition humbly
4) quarrelsome
(18) disinclination
1) kind in a generous way (to someone less important)
2) body of customers
3) serving to assist
4) unwillingness
(19) diligence
1) relating to the highest point
2) speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions
3) steadiness of effort
4) dwelling place
(20) irrelevant
1) not applicable
2) mentally quick and observant
3) move the fingers and hands awkwardly (in search of something)
4) avoid (responsibility, work, etc.)
(21) enlist
1) with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distruct)
2) (cause to) join the armed forces
3) autopsy
4) unwilling
(22) innovation
1) absolutely necessary
2) change
3) pertaining to farewell
4) very important
(23) connoisseur
1) (of something written or painted) still in existence
2) falling off at a specific season or stage of growth as of leaves
3) decrease in size or strength (after being full)
4) person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected)
(24) euphoria
1) school for training future ministers
2) feeling of exaggerated or unfounded(ungrounded
3) having the appearance of truth or reality
4) lover of mankind
(25) wanton
1) e indisputable
2) pitiless
3) eliminate from consideration
4) unrestrained
ANSWERS:
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