VOCABULART TEST 147


(1) fabricate
1) (of weather) warm and damp
2) build
3) accustomed
4) support militantly



(2) supplicate
1) (of air) thin in density
2) petition humbly
3) suggestive of something (in the past)
4) tease



(3) stringent
1) existing at the beginning (of time)
2) group of attendants
3) something taken for granted
4) (of rules) binding



(4) scurvy
1) every two years
2) contemptible
3) outwit
4) incapable of being pacified



(5) affable
1) take vengence for something or on behalf of someone
2) oval building with tiers of seats
3) surrender
4) easily approachable



(6) bait
1) adorn
2) return of part of a payment
3) harass
4) satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger)



(7) underlying
1) external
2) honor
3) noisy quarrel
4) lying below



(8) clemency
1) disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments
2) expand
3) physically strong
4) disposed to revenge



(9) paleontology
1) sharp to the taste
2) complain (in a sad voice)
3) short simple story teaching a moral
4) study of prehistoric life or fossils



(10) agenda
1) items of business at a meeting
2) sorcery
3) fast
4) very harmful



(11) shrew
1) like a glacier
2) the smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance
3) scolding woman
4) small plane surface (of a gem(precious stone))



(12) rarefied
1) pantry
2) not being a person
3) shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match)
4) made less dense (of a gas)



(13) outgoing
1) sociable
2) make unfriendly or hostile
3) combine
4) looking back on the past



(14) degenerate
1) go down on one's knee(s)
2) drive or hunt out of hiding
3) uncorrectable
4) become worse in quality



(15) rail
1) religion practiced chiefly in Haiti
2) complain bitterly
3) talking to oneself (esp. in a play)
4) growing or spreading uncontrollably



(16) shed
1) ointment
2) sudden sharp feeling of pain
3) small roofed structure for storage and shelter
4) skin disease (on the face)



(17) parvenu
1) unable for the moment to speak (because of strong feeling)
2) rather fat
3) put at a loss
4) upstart



(18) makeshift
1) calm and unexcitable
2) stupid
3) one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather)
4) temporary expedient or substitute (in the case of urgent need)



(19) cascade
1) line (of waiting people or vehicles)
2) abundance
3) arise from
4) small waterfall



(20) mordant
1) biting
2) time of greatest success or power
3) rotting flesh of a dead body
4) bend the knee as in worship



(21) paraphrase
1) restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author
2) title or heading (in red print)
3) grandiloquent, pompous speech
4) plunder



(22) malicious
1) devoutness
2) hateful
3) inclination
4) mar



(23) rectitude
1) show clearly
2) move or swing back and forth
3) moral correctness
4) leave to someone by means of a will



(24) insubstantial
1) lacking substance
2) person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment
3) specialist in classifying (animals, etc.)
4) build



(25) relinquish
1) mercy killing
2) rider on horseback
3) give up something (with reluctance)
4) hidden danger


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