VOCABULARY TEST 101
(1) dereliction
1) neglect of duty
2) seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning
3) do drudgery
4) put in order
(2) monogram
1) walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement
2) braid
3) cause
4) design composed of one or more initials of a name
(3) amalgamate
1) difficult to understand
2) behavior
3) (of societies or groups) combine
4) process of nourishing or being nourished
(4) preamble
1) (of writing) flowing
2) unrefined
3) standards used in judging
4) introductory statement
(5) impervious
1) life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history
2) impenetrable
3) corpse
4) wet thoroughly
(6) homeostasis
1) shine erratically
2) tendency of a system or organism to maintain relative stability or internal equilibrium
3) like a meteor
4) draw
(7) taunt
1) excessive indulgence of one's own desire
2) deride or provoke
3) having importance
4) wordy
(8) obituary
1) ash-colored
2) either of the correlated things
3) death notice (esp. in a newspaper)
4) serving to assist
(9) papyrus
1) ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
2) broad
3) life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history
4) very carefully
(10) centrifuge
1) emancipate
2) one who is habitually cruel to weaker people
3) pretend
4) machine that separates substances by whirling them
(11) periphery
1) embezzle
2) outside edge especially of a round surface
3) trademark
4) failure to act
(12) interrogate
1) thought
2) question closely
3) set free
4) shining brightly
(13) squash
1) lose a small piece from the surface or edge
2) state confidently
3) copy
4) crush
(14) bombast
1) comic misuse of a word
2) grandiloquent, pompous speech
3) youthful
4) (of a person) unable to express what one really feels
(15) persist
1) trip
2) worsen
3) word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing
4) continue in existence
(16) niggardly
1) point or time at which the sun is farthest from the equator
2) meanly stingy
3) unfriendliness
4) calm
(17) brittle
1) hard but easily broken
2) struggle confusedly
3) without exceptions
4) chatter rapidly or unintelligibly
(18) affinity
1) advantage
2) make (something written) false by changing
3) link as in a chain
4) feeling of kinship
(19) spruce
1) neat and trim in appearance
2) situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options
3) measure
4) feverish
(20) methodical
1) systematic
2) diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers
3) evil
4) having many forms
(21) reverent
1) respectful
2) adopt
3) pertaining to the stars
4) nonstandard grammatical construction
(22) compensatory
1) making up for
2) (of a boat) turn over
3) apparatus for making sounds
4) storehouse
(23) unprepossessing
1) nonstandard grammatical construction
2) go down on one's knee(s)
3) unattractive
4) voters represented by an elected official
(24) epitaph
1) set off
2) corrupt morally
3) inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)
4) mix together in close association
(25) regal
1) royal
2) one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided
3) of the influence of the mind on the body (esp. with respect to disease)
4) meat of a deer
ANSWERS:
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