VOCABULARY TEST 67
(1) scanty
1) lively
2) greediness for wealth
3) morally disapproved person
4) meager
(2) stately
1) drifting wreckage
2) hiding place
3) made of inferior material
4) formal
(3) quirk
1) belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control
2) loose freshness
3) sudden sharp turn or twist
4) essence
(4) season
1) trademark
2) tendency to keep together
3) combining parts or separate things into a whole
4) enhance the flavor of by adding a spice, etc.
(5) rakish
1) platitude
2) something long-lasting
3) half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (resembling a goat), portrayed as wanton(unrestrained) and cunning
4) jaunty
(6) extrapolation
1) satisfy to the full
2) boasting
3) mutually destructive
4) projection
(7) ooze
1) one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause
2) gruesome
3) dependent on something uncertain or in the future
4) (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly
(8) gauche
1) clumsy (in social behavior)
2) send to a person or place for sale
3) authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court)
4) fallen fruit
(9) surfeit
1) satiate
2) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law
3) work or appoint as a deputy
4) cowardly
(10) gerontology
1) home of a hermit
2) study of the sociological phenomena associated with old age
3) curse
4) similar
(11) gallows
1) issue forth
2) something new
3) framework from which a noose is suspended (used for execution by hanging)
4) highly excited
(12) ingrained
1) area of thick hard skin
2) attacking cherished traditions
3) deeply established
4) poison (of an animal)
(13) absolve
1) join together end to end to make one continuous length
2) appearance of truth
3) pardon (an offense)
4) oily
(14) replete
1) contract into wrinkles
2) do or give something in return
3) of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal
4) fully filled
(15) fusillade
1) tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid
2) simultaneous firing or outburst (of missiles, questions, etc.)
3) move gently (in air or in seas) by wind or waves
4) mismanage
(16) disclose
1) reveal
2) certainty
3) grand suggesting great expense
4) eat away
(17) vivisection
1) act of dissecting living animals
2) very thin piece, usually of wood (cut from a surface with a sharp blade)
3) existing at birth
4) written command issued by a court (telling someone to do or not to do something)
(18) fritter
1) waste (time or money on unimportant things)
2) supplicatory prayer
3) clever and imaginative (in dealing with difficult situations)
4) (of societies or groups) combine
(19) upshot
1) turn to for help
2) life after death
3) outcome
4) guess
(20) draught
1) current of air (through a room or to a fire)
2) one that achieves unexpected success
3) sniffle
4) refine
(21) marginal
1) of a margin
2) intellectuals
3) shove
4) (of a place) be filled with sound
(22) append
1) haughty
2) attach
3) (of a story or play) loosely connected
4) marriageable
(23) extrovert
1) person interested mostly in external objects and actions
2) title or heading (in red print)
3) one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics)
4) incinerate (a corpse)
(24) frigid
1) intensely cold
2) correct a false impression
3) pass safely through (a storm or difficult period)
4) annoying
(25) gavel
1) humbleness of spirit
2) hammerlike tool
3) trick
4) offensive
ANSWERS:
(1)4 (2)4 (3)3 (4)4 (5)4 (6)4 (7)4 (8)1 (9)1 (10)2 (11)3 (12)3 (13)3 (14)4 (15)2 (16)1 (17)1 (18)1 (19)3 (20)1 (21)1 (22)2 (23)1 (24)1 (25)2
