VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 26

(1) nonentity


1) surrender

2) person of no importance

3) grisly

4) wandering away from the subject

(2) panache


1) sweet sounding

2) furthest behind

3) flair

4) evil schemes or plots

(3) ensconce


1) ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.

2) of or pertaining to the people

3) convenient features that helps to make life pleasant

4) settle comfortably

(4) illicit


1) attractive

2) drug that relieves pain or trouble

3) witty saying

4) illegal

(5) epic


1) eating away by chemicals or disease

2) wanderer (without a permanent home)

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

4) put forth for consideration or analysis

(6) soluble


1) mutual

2) able to be dissolved in a liquid

3) dull

4) piebald

(7) seismic


1) travel

2) flow out slowly

3) pertaining to earthquakes

4) difficult condition

(8) accessory


1) being truly so

2) aversion

3) additional object

4) antiquated

(9) defame


1) harm someone's reputation

2) written command issued by a court (telling someone to do or not to do something)

3) celebrity (in a specific field)

4) survey of enemy by soldiers

(10) coquette


1) flirt

2) small amount (of money)

3) (of a person or book) learned

4) flexible

(11) subsidiary


1) bodily (rather than spiritual)

2) serving to assist

3) charge in court

4) suave

(12) ramble


1) mouthlike opening

2) requiring sitting

3) wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)

4) vary

(13) diverse


1) (of air) thin in density

2) fall apart into tangles

3) differing in some characteristics (from each other)

4) yellowed

(14) gust


1) related

2) strong abrupt rush of wind

3) composed (with no excitement)

4) continued loud noise

(15) promiscuous


1) punish by placing in a wooden frame or pillory

2) compulsive habitual need

3) mixed indiscriminately

4) delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork

(16) spatial


1) split into opposite extremes or camps

2) ridicule

3) relating to space

4) roundness

(17) penance


1) self-imposed punishment for sin

2) come to one as a gain

3) redden

4) low, indistinct, continuous sound

(18) passive


1) motion

2) control

3) not active

4) first rough form

(19) venerable


1) deserving high respect

2) churlish, miserly individual

3) return of part of a payment

4) pertaining to memory

(20) nurture


1) nourish

2) deck opening

3) relieve (pain)

4) 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern

(21) denouement


1) exclamation

2) greatness (in size or extent)

3) final outcome

4) systematic plan

(22) mannerism


1) fleeting or transitory

2) foretell

3) physically strong

4) distinctive behavioral trait

(23) maelstrom


1) violent whirlpool

2) charlatan

3) imitation

4) V-shaped cut in a surface

(24) defiance


1) outstanding

2) refusal to yield

3) fearful

4) one opposed to force

(25) animus


1) metric

2) discuss lightly or glibly

3) twistings

4) hostile feeling or intent