VOCABULART TEST 124
(1) optician
1) unrestrained
2) maker and seller of eyeglasses
3) horrible
4) approach and speak first to a person
(2) pastry
1) death notice (esp. in a newspaper)
2) paste of flour and water (eaten when baked)
3) place of refuge
4) weird
(3) embed(imbed)
1) fertility
2) disprove
3) prophetic
4) enclose
(4) comatose
1) in a coma
2) act of keeping watch
3) belittle
4) gift giver
(5) brisk
1) belief on slight evidence
2) drink of the gods
3) move furtively and secretly
4) quick and active
(6) prosperity
1) good fortune and financial success
2) home
3) grieve
4) full of pores
(7) overt
1) open to view
2) metal block used for shaping metal or plastic
3) tending to improve
4) physician who specializes in treatment of the eyes
(8) quizzical
1) one who has adopted a different religion or opinion
2) kindly
3) curious
4) make rational
(9) sidereal
1) relating to stars
2) relating to the highest point
3) pretend
4) dock
(10) equipoise
1) imitation of a real object used as a substitute
2) balance
3) go through or across
4) theoretical
(11) pulmonary
1) pertaining to the lungs
2) sleep-causing
3) interdependent relationship (between groups, species) often mutually beneficial
4) light-hearted
(12) pastoral
1) work out carefully
2) rural
3) private secret meeting
4) sharp-cornered
(13) plumber
1) swamp gas
2) one who installs and repairs pipes and plumbing(pipes)
3) trivial
4) insult
(14) cavil
1) quibble
2) crown
3) tear or be torn quickly and violently
4) stroke
(15) metaphysical
1) pertaining to speculative philosophy
2) questionable medicine
3) given freely
4) brownish yellow
(16) cadaverous
1) skeptical or distrustful of human motives
2) write
3) glowing ardor
4) like a corpse
(17) hinterlands
1) change of form
2) back country
3) good-fellowship
4) sniffle
(18) reckon
1) ability to be molded
2) artistic
3) study industriously
4) count
(19) avow
1) loose sleeveless outer garment
2) apparent
3) fortress
4) declare openly
(20) ineffectual
1) outstanding
2) not effective
3) uncertain how to act
4) run away secretly with the intention of getting married
(21) throes
1) violent anguish
2) door bar
3) protest
4) quarrelsome
(22) gravity
1) handle roughly
2) seriousness
3) express strong disapproval of
4) unlikely occurrence
(23) diadem
1) soothe
2) seemingly reasonable but incorrect
3) crown
4) (of a person) truthful
(24) coincidence
1) agent (sent on a mission to represent another)
2) grow rapidly (in numbers)
3) group of closely located islands
4) the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events
(25) recline
1) give an imitation that ridicules
2) lie down
3) deceptive
4) growing or spreading uncontrollably
ANSWERS:
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