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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

VOCABULARY TEST 68


(1) inverse
1) clowning
2) opposite
3) one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
4) quality of being true



(2) reactionary
1) noble
2) provide for the payment of
3) strongly opposed to social or political change
4) student at a military school



(3) memorial
1) book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form
2) life after death
3) something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to honor the memory of a person or event
4) morally disapproved person



(4) adjunct
1) wild drunken revelry
2) lie
3) something attached to but holding an inferior position
4) sentry



(5) rebuttal
1) totally clear
2) refutation
3) testimony under oath
4) purging or cleansing of any passage of the body



(6) thresh
1) servile flatterer
2) a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child
3) beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw
4) absentminded



(7) cadence
1) rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds)
2) stilent) causing plague
3) provide written evidence (for a claim)
4) pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state



(8) empathy
1) shriveled
2) severity
3) ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.
4) contradict



(9) statutory
1) pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)
2) objectionable
3) greed (for wealth)
4) created by statute or legislative action



(10) exiguous
1) irregular
2) not open to attack
3) not essential
4) small in amount



(11) intrinsic
1) urgent situation
2) essential
3) combining parts or separate things into a whole
4) eager enjoyment



(12) candor
1) man employed to take care of horses
2) drawback
3) accustomed
4) frankness



(13) generality
1) V-shaped cut in a surface
2) vague statement
3) permanent
4) clumsy



(14) dank
1) expand
2) hint
3) light-hearted
4) damp



(15) representationa
1) explanation, especially of biblical(of the bible) passages
2) l (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life
3) father and ruler of a family or tribe
4) total



(16) metamorphosis
1) equip
2) change of form
3) crafty
4) happiness



(17) conclave
1) agreeable
2) rhythmical throbbing of arteries
3) private secret meeting
4) expressing a low opinion



(18) nubile
1) burlesque
2) restrain
3) deprived of (someone beloved through death)
4) marriageable



(19) yokel
1) great fire
2) rustic
3) spacious
4) substance causing vomiting



(20) defer
1) fixed portion
2) beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw
3) skillful
4) give in respectfully



(21) whinny
1) neigh like a horse
2) refine
3) pare
4) changeable (in affections or friendship)



(22) transpire
1) obedient
2) venture
3) (of a fact) become known
4) determine in advance



(23) indignation
1) anger at an injustice
2) catch sight of (something distant)
3) be next to
4) eager enjoyment



(24) viper
1) poisonous snake
2) having or causing lustful desires and thoughts
3) evil spirit
4) indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)



(25) prepossessing
1) attractive
2) poisonous
3) exclamation
4) direct quick route


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