VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 34

(1) pervert


1) put into a lower or worse place

2) impudent disrespect

3) thunder

4) corrupt

(2) exhume


1) ability

2) metal pin used for fastening metal plates together

3) dig out of the ground

4) chaplain (in the armed forces)

(3) bacchanalian


1) drunken

2) become unsteady and fall down

3) overbright in color

4) vicious assault

(4) oscillate


1) isolation

2) special talent

3) having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar)

4) vibrate pendulumlike

(5) bourgeois


1) middle class

2) free from an entanglement or difficulty

3) gaiety

4) disfranchise

(6) jingoist


1) extremely aggressive and militant patriot

2) partial shadow (in an eclipse)

3) (of people or animals) sturdy

4) top (as of a hill or wave)

(7) reverie


1) steadiness of effort

2) skin disease (on the face)

3) sign or warning (of coming danger)

4) daydream

(8) fracas


1) brawl(noisy quarrel or fight) in which a number of people take part

2) bizzare

3) unfortunate

4) lying on back

(9) taxonomist


1) specialist in classifying (animals, etc.)

2) pertaining to money

3) protruding knot on a tree

4) cloying sweet

(10) coalition


1) waver (in opinion)

2) sleeping

3) traitor

4) partnership

(11) talisman


1) act of using one's will

2) people of standing(rank or position)

3) desire

4) charm

(12) trek


1) collect (gradually, in a very large amount)

2) travel

3) positive assertion

4) spoil the appearance of

(13) galvanic


1) wordy

2) call by bugles or trumpets

3) of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal

4) coloring matter (usually powder to be mixed with water or oil)

(14) credulity


1) study of language or words

2) having womanly traits

3) withdrawal

4) belief on slight evidence

(15) deleterious


1) repair or make whole by using a metal alloy

2) harmful

3) stand, sit, or lie in a lazy, relaxed way

4) easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things

(16) monotheism


1) chaplain (in the armed forces)

2) husk

3) state of being stupefied

4) belief in one God

(17) gobble


1) eat very quickly

2) wandering

3) pretend

4) things thrown from a ship (to lighten the ship)

(18) umbrage


1) causing a feeling of pity or sympathy

2) large wave of water

3) belief that life is basically bad or evil

4) resentment

(19) deterrent


1) long established as a disease

2) something that discourages or deters

3) blunt

4) bad-tempered

(20) reciprocal


1) low ship with sails (rowed along by slaves)

2) agreement between two groups or people

3) mutual

4) obvious

(21) shuffle


1) bind as servant or apprentice to master

2) ars) ancestors

3) surround

4) mix together

(22) cant


1) meantime

2) inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract

3) prohibit

4) insincere speech or expression of piety

(23) adjoin


1) be next to

2) worldly

3) correspondence of parts

4) explain in detail

(24) disinter


1) provide or use scantily

2) one who hates mankind

3) dig up

4) not essential

(25) insuperable


1) having the odor of stale or decomposing fat

2) brief flash of light

3) insurmountable

4) lessen in value