VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 173

(1) venerate


1) notoriously bad

2) article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly

3) pantry

4) revere

(2) demagogue


1) person who appeals to people's prejudice

2) lacking liveliness

3) obtain by pulling violently

4) language used by special group

(3) bivouac


1) ability to foretell the future

2) fringes

3) story-teller

4) temporary encampment

(4) immune


1) censure

2) like a corpse

3) third in order or rank

4) resistant to

(5) transient


1) prepare by mixing or combining

2) damnation

3) negligent

4) staying for a short time

(6) sinecure


1) well-paid position with little responsibility

2) disgrace

3) man who is not a cleric

4) (of a condition) wretched

(7) herd


1) clowning

2) arranged by degrees (of height, difficulty, etc.)

3) steal (things of small value)

4) group of animals

(8) connivance


1) pretense of ignorance of something wrong

2) important in history

3) one who commits sabotage

4) having an aversion or lack of concern for political affairs

(9) waive


1) give up temporarily

2) ability

3) one that achieves unexpected success

4) conceivably true

(10) obtrude


1) old age

2) pertaining to ships or navigation

3) push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude

4) confuse

(11) surge


1) candid

2) ceremony conferring holy orders

3) disturb the composure of

4) powerful movement of or like a wave

(12) scabbard


1) throw overboard (from a ship or plane)

2) worldly wise and urbane

3) case for a sword blade

4) branch out

(13) parody


1) suffering from indigestion

2) humorous imitation

3) arrange into categories or grades

4) too certain to be disputed

(14) obdurate


1) stubborn

2) lying on back

3) glass water bottle

4) seasonings

(15) daunt


1) hard to understand

2) intimidate

3) opposite

4) have a tendency

(16) disbar


1) place side by side

2) make (a lawyer) leave the bar or the legal profession

3) in love

4) neat

(17) demented


1) arrangement by rank or standing

2) sudden outburst of an illness or feeling

3) explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults

4) insane

(18) analgesic


1) causing insensitivity to pain

2) one who installs and repairs pipes and plumbing(pipes)

3) phrase dulled in meaning by repetition

4) defeat

(19) remorse


1) deep regret for wrongdoing

2) sameness leading to boredom

3) horrible

4) warmly friendly

(20) rendition


1) obtain by pulling violently

2) condition of being squalid

3) refusal to yield

4) rendering

(21) caldron(cauldro


1) undeveloped

2) secret recess or vault usually used for burial

3) n) large kettle

4) obligatory

(22) prate


1) study of fish

2) talk idly

3) burn the surface of

4) cut the top off

(23) frigid


1) llduggery) dishonest behavior or action

2) intensely cold

3) become unsteady and fall down

4) refrain

(24) convert


1) marriageable

2) like a spirit or fairy

3) full of learning

4) one who has adopted a different religion or opinion

(25) jurisdiction


1) me) gay

2) follow (as a result)

3) right and power to apply the law

4) swindle