VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 9

(1) omnipotent


1) follow (as a result)

2) all-powerful

3) remedy to counteract a poison or disease

4) gloomy

(2) megalomania


1) member of the working class

2) mania for doing grandiose things

3) trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense

4) esoteric

(3) penchant


1) brief and to the point

2) having or causing lustful desires and thoughts

3) keep away from

4) strong inclination

(4) resourceful


1) clever and imaginative (in dealing with difficult situations)

2) whim

3) dig into (to get stone)

4) connoisseur of food and drink

(5) ideology


1) mutilate

2) system of ideas characteristic of a group or culture

3) little round hill

4) rather fat

(6) vigor


1) freedom from narrow limitations

2) active strength

3) draftee

4) strikingly bright

(7) indeterminate


1) threat

2) manlike

3) habitual return to crime (even after being punished)

4) uncertain

(8) hegemony


1) dominance especially of one nation over others

2) hopelessly sad (at the loss of something)

3) exhibiting rainbowlike colors

4) frustrate

(9) barb


1) producing offspring or fruit in abundance

2) person or thing excess of what is necessary

3) sharp projection from fishhook, arrow, or other object

4) give

(10) piebald


1) of different colors

2) turn away from (a principle, norm)

3) reconstruct (a sentence, story, statue, etc.)

4) wet thoroughly

(11) confidential


1) make use of, sometimes unjustly

2) conference (between opponents)

3) spoken or written in secret

4) injure without breaking the skin

(12) inundate


1) foul smelling

2) flood

3) sear

4) underlying character of a culture, group, etc.

(13) crestfallen


1) distinguish

2) division of a poem (composed of two or more lines)

3) hindrance

4) dejected

(14) prude


1) charm

2) government under a single ruler

3) excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things, esp. of a sexual nature)

4) arrange into categories or grades

(15) verisimilar


1) process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance

2) deep-rooted

3) having the appearance of truth or reality

4) blow in heavy gusts

(16) idolatry


1) take (one's attention) off something

2) worship of idols

3) live together

4) body of customers

(17) maritime


1) bordering on(adjacent to) the sea

2) incinerate (a corpse)

3) made in an earlier period and usu. valuable

4) provide for the payment of

(18) assimilate


1) decorate with needlework

2) absorb

3) sour

4) surround with armed forces

(19) rationalize


1) seine net

2) written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law)

3) extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress

4) make rational

(20) chronicle


1) formal essay

2) make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)

3) attribute

4) report

(21) hazardous


1) flowing together

2) (the stated person's) habit or custom

3) dangerous

4) linger

(22) apprise


1) affecting or relating to the sense of taste

2) beautiful writing

3) inform

4) violent whirlpool

(23) gloat


1) Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)

2) stubborn intolerance

3) express evil satisfaction

4) question closely

(24) sentinel


1) ing\'enue

2) secret

3) produce young

4) sentry

(25) fecundity


1) fertility

2) treat gently

3) relating to space

4) random