VOCABULARY TEST 167
(1) privy
1) causing nausea
2) secret
3) situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options
4) brief explanation of words used in the text
(2) importune
1) beg persistently
2) enclose
3) spread through or over (with a color or liquid)
4) wanderer (without a permanent home)
(3) sever
1) introduce as a subject
2) epicure
3) separate
4) burning
(4) austere
1) forbiddingly stern
2) (of a person) bold
3) support (a claim) with evidence
4) ornate
(5) madrigal
1) very bad or disagreeable
2) preceding (in time, rank, etc.)
3) pastoral song
4) glassy residue from smelting metal
(6) rousing
1) lively
2) incapable of injury
3) slip or slide
4) predicament(dangerous condition) from which there is no escape
(7) steep
1) explanatory
2) struggle confusedly
3) soak
4) theatrical
(8) raiment
1) not normal
2) clothing
3) restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author
4) begin formally
(9) gratis
1) having the weight of authority
2) free
3) assist (someone in difficulty)
4) existing at the beginning (of time)
(10) gingerly
1) very carefully
2) man who is not a cleric
3) shrink back as if in fear
4) put or force in without being asked
(11) diurnal
1) motion
2) daily
3) element
4) unrepressed
(12) condiments
1) infallibility
2) seasonings
3) gold and silver in the form of bars
4) approach and speak first to a person
(13) unintimating
1) huge
2) cut into small parts
3) unfrightening
4) modest
(14) idiom
1) lead-colored
2) expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words
3) deviate
4) happening in the near future
(15) decrepitude
1) wool coat of a sheep
2) based on experience
3) state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age
4) compose on the spur of the moment
(16) nutrition
1) process of nourishing or being nourished
2) detestable
3) hatred of marriage
4) outcome
(17) nirvana
1) one who is habitually cruel to weaker people
2) conduct or language inciting rebellion
3) peak
4) in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude
(18) sluggard
1) reject with rudeness or coldness (an offer or friendship)
2) dwarf
3) raised platform used in preaching (in a church)
4) lazy person
(19) contiguous
1) period between two successive reigns or governments
2) imitate or mimic (a person's behavior or manner)
3) adjacent to
4) easily understood
(20) endemic
1) poise
2) in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord
3) prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
4) sound on judgment
(21) fervor
1) multi-colored (as of a garment worn by a jester)
2) attractive (in personality or appearance)
3) glowing ardor
4) simultaneous firing or outburst (of missiles, questions, etc.)
(22) tureen
1) metal pin used for fastening metal plates together
2) provide or use scantily
3) power of endurance
4) deep dish for serving soup
(23) haunt
1) excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife
2) final
3) (of a spirit) visit (a place)
4) repentant
(24) carrion
1) lascivious
2) (of desire, wish, plan) recently begun
3) rotting flesh of a dead body
4) hard coating or crust
(25) plump
1) announce
2) change or harden into bone
3) pleasantly fat
4) allowing much freedom
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