VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 36

(1) incumbent


1) person designated to execute the terms of a will

2) storage place for military equipment

3) obligatory

4) chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically)

(2) catholic


1) long heroic poem, novel, or similar work of art (celebrating the feats of a hero)

2) (of likings and interests) universal

3) shortcoming

4) smoothness of speech

(3) indignity


1) sweet sounding

2) treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect

3) person who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands

4) careful about money

(4) leash


1) deputize

2) restraining rope fastened to the collar of an animal (to control it)

3) wishing evil

4) border

(5) touchy


1) hairy

2) three-pronged spear

3) move heavily or clumsily

4) oversensitive

(6) livid


1) study industriously

2) burst inward

3) unable to be restrained or held back

4) lead-colored

(7) crotchety


1) taking for one's own use in violation of trust

2) (of someone old) eccentric

3) renounce upon oath

4) seriousness

(8) oblique


1) study of prison management and criminal rehabilitation

2) free from worries

3) make friendly again (after quarrel)

4) indirect

(9) queue


1) quality of being true

2) pertaining to a province

3) line (of waiting people or vehicles)

4) aimless

(10) pandemic


1) widespread

2) ravenous

3) ruler in a monarchy

4) give shape to

(11) reputable


1) become boring

2) practicing self-denial

3) satisfy to the full

4) respectable

(12) burnish


1) deserving blame

2) make shiny by rubbing

3) outcry

4) crude dwelling

(13) vindictive


1) disposed to revenge

2) knickknack

3) ambush

4) change or harden into bone

(14) ordain


1) pass slowly through small openings

2) make invalid

3) decree or command

4) unconventional (in an artistic way)

(15) convene


1) authoritative order

2) throw lightly

3) come together

4) metal block used for shaping metal or plastic

(16) complaisant


1) (of things and place) dirty and dull

2) formal praise

3) lustful

4) trying to please

(17) speechless


1) propaganda pamphlet (esp. by a religious or political group)

2) unable for the moment to speak (because of strong feeling)

3) state of depression or melancholy

4) fast

(18) assay


1) self-assurance

2) neat and trim (in appearance)

3) salty

4) analyze (to discover what materials are present)

(19) beneficent


1) of a periphery

2) young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family)

3) full of self-admiration

4) kindly

(20) crabbed


1) sour

2) (of behavior) proper

3) hint

4) Pharisee: member of an ancient Jewish group that emphasized strict observance of the Mosaic law (considering themselves very holy)

(21) forward


1) infallibly

2) presumptuous or bold

3) wring from

4) restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author

(22) indomitable


1) (particular form of) political organization

2) place over something else

3) unconquerable

4) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law

(23) labile


1) rebellious

2) scholarly article

3) fastidious

4) likely to change

(24) flip


1) small stream

2) send (something) spinning, often into the air, by striking with a light quick blow

3) restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs

4) cast a spell over

(25) phylum


1) major classification, second to kingdom, of plants and animals

2) word considered offensive

3) diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas

4) impending