VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 5

(1) sultry


1) (of weather) hot

2) small model

3) (of a woman or child) grave

4) approve

(2) addendum


1) hide

2) calmness

3) chief

4) addition

(3) vogue


1) current of air (through a room or to a fire)

2) popular fashion

3) everlasting

4) harmony

(4) asymmetric


1) inhabit in numbers large enough to be harmful

2) hold back (the natural expression of)

3) not identical on both sides of a dividing central line

4) positive assertion

(5) smattering


1) traditional

2) facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust, etc

3) sediment in a liquid

4) slight knowledge

(6) rant


1) story-teller

2) physically strong

3) division of a city for election or police purposes

4) speak violently or excitedly

(7) fatalism


1) belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control

2) large city

3) small body revolving around a larger one

4) error

(8) tread


1) (of a person or writing) digressing

2) amount produced

3) burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection

4) walk

(9) astigmatism


1) homeless child or animal

2) eye defect which prevents proper focus

3) threat

4) make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying)

(10) paraphrase


1) prose or verse composition to be performed by actors

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

3) moral correctness

4) habitually silent

(11) credo


1) show clearly

2) cautious

3) that can be permeated

4) creed

(12) petty


1) mix together in close association

2) willful

3) assumption

4) trivial

(13) diversion


1) meddlesome

2) harmful

3) act of turning aside

4) not planned

(14) endue


1) sleeping

2) provide with some quality

3) lawyer using questionable methods

4) huge creature

(15) rally


1) queer and amusing

2) come or bring together

3) narrate or tell (a story)

4) on or relating to the earth

(16) bruise


1) easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things

2) beautiful writing

3) injure without breaking the skin

4) deceit

(17) engaged


1) calm

2) dark and gloomy

3) clear from blame or guilt

4) employed

(18) wrangle


1) quarrel noisily

2) soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells

3) ransack

4) put under a spell(condition caused by magical power)

(19) sibling


1) effusively sentimental

2) live together

3) flashy

4) brother or sister

(20) embody


1) praising

2) private secret meeting

3) properly made and complete

4) give a bodily form to

(21) except


1) exclude

2) private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy

3) (of a spirit) visit (a place)

4) minor fight

(22) lottery


1) traitor

2) lacking in spirit or energy

3) contest in which winners are selected in a drawing of lots

4) teachings in general

(23) compost


1) mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer

2) slanderous remark

3) move (a railway train) from one track to another

4) heavenly

(24) anemia


1) practicing self-denial

2) condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles

3) event

4) lessening

(25) privation


1) without money

2) lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life

3) slope

4) having a fixed order of procedure