VOCABULARY TEST 162
(1) depose
1) lacking intelligence or wit
2) healthy
3) dethrone
4) hide
(2) conciliatory
1) enhance the flavor of by adding a spice, etc.
2) reconciling
3) deserve
4) falling off at a specific season or stage of growth as of leaves
(3) compound
1) eager enthusiasm (to a cause or ideal)
2) combine
3) insightful
4) lazy person
(4) dialectical
1) disloyal
2) honor the memory of
3) relating to the art of debate
4) provide with food necessary for life and growth
(5) disheveled
1) encode
2) keep
3) untidy (of hair or clothing)
4) drink with zest
(6) malfeasance
1) wrongdoing
2) pierce (with a sharp point)
3) counselor
4) division of animals or plants, below a family and above a species
(7) indite
1) write
2) aqueduct
3) funeral ceremony
4) sear
(8) excerpt
1) well-paid position with little responsibility
2) selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work
3) estimate value of
4) rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds)
(9) swarm
1) lack of consistency or agreement as between facts
2) offering or providing help
3) black magic
4) large group of insects moving in a mass
(10) timbre
1) strong longing to travel
2) quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)
3) a place where bees are kept
4) assuage or satisfy (thrust)
(11) chasm
1) (particular form of) political organization
2) recover
3) abyss
4) in name only
(12) breadth
1) width
2) deceive
3) small speck (esp. of dust)
4) abusive
(13) veracious
1) motion
2) (of a person) truthful
3) father
4) overcome
(14) repast
1) one who supplicates
2) meal
3) one devoted to the promotion of human welfare
4) infallibility
(15) mischance
1) of a schema or scheme
2) only slightly connected
3) denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius)
4) ill luck
(16) behoove(behove)
1) poet
2) sudden disastrous downfall or defeat
3) full of flowers
4) be suited to
(17) shade
1) slight difference in degree
2) one who fits glasses to remedy visual defects
3) nearing
4) great shock
(18) surmise
1) powerful person
2) guess
3) plunder
4) landless agricultural worker
(19) grandeur
1) impressiveness
2) churlish, miserly individual
3) wise
4) like wood
(20) dispel
1) step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish)
2) teacher of philosophy
3) shove
4) scatter
(21) sullen
1) (of a liquid) having the sediment disturbed
2) silently showing ill humor or resentment
3) massive
4) repetition of beginning sound in poetry
(22) passive
1) cut down
2) all-powerful
3) long loose garment (worn by monks)
4) not active
(23) stickler
1) irresistible
2) worship of idols
3) question closely
4) perfectionist
(24) expedite
1) hasten
2) defamation
3) change in direction
4) protest
(25) demoniac(demoni
1) acal) fiendish
2) deviate
3) money or goods given to the poor
4) deadlock
ANSWERS:
(1)3 (2)2 (3)2 (4)3 (5)3 (6)1 (7)1 (8)2 (9)4 (10)2 (11)3 (12)1 (13)2 (14)2 (15)4 (16)4 (17)1 (18)2 (19)1 (20)4 (21)2 (22)4 (23)4 (24)1 (25)1
