VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 50

(1) jest


1) a covered passageway usually lined with shops

2) feign

3) vague

4) playful remark or act

(2) historic


1) approve

2) honor

3) separate

4) important in history

(3) enigma


1) puzzle

2) suffering from indigestion

3) return of part of a payment

4) public declaration of principles

(4) awful


1) terrible

2) cut down

3) unnoticeable

4) clear from blame or guilt

(5) vixen


1) mortuary

2) group of people who share some common quality

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

4) female fox

(6) vituperative


1) abusive

2) composed (with no excitement)

3) general agreement

4) sit on in order to hatch

(7) cower


1) corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields

2) tending to improve

3) of or pertaining to the people

4) shrink quivering as from fear

(8) discrete


1) destruction

2) outside edge especially of a round surface

3) beauty

4) separate

(9) chortle


1) lottery

2) chuckle with delight

3) unconventional (in an artistic way)

4) art of effective communication

(10) epicure


1) impossible to estimate

2) serving to assist

3) of religion

4) connoisseur of food and drink

(11) bane


1) supporter

2) posion

3) resolve

4) bee-keeping

(12) juridical


1) of the law and its administration

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

3) sensual

4) bordering on(adjacent to) the sea

(13) carping


1) impressionable

2) having many languages

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

4) petty criticism

(14) grandiose


1) affectedly grand

2) announce

3) title or heading (in red print)

4) brilliant

(15) solecism


1) growth or increase in size by gradual addition

2) nonstandard grammatical construction

3) weakness of mind

4) substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter

(16) arable


1) complain bitterly

2) spread throughout

3) burdensome

4) fit for growing crops

(17) transpire


1) place of refuge or shelter

2) diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers

3) readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others

4) (of a fact) become known

(18) blithe(blitheso


1) set right

2) loud continous noise

3) me) gay

4) not requited

(19) threadbare


1) refusal to yield

2) abundant

3) worn through till the threads show

4) bog

(20) promontory


1) in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude

2) useless

3) traditional

4) headland

(21) irrevocable


1) express condolences

2) unalterable

3) unoriginal

4) trip and almost fall

(22) resound


1) acal) fiendish

2) wooden enclosure or pen

3) leave helpless on a deserted island or coast

4) (of a place) be filled with sound

(23) sustain


1) suffer (harm or loss)

2) area of thick hard skin

3) offensive

4) being everywhere

(24) gerontocracy


1) utter (complaining words) indistinctly in low tones

2) catch sight of (something distant)

3) government ruled by old people

4) cule) extremely small

(25) deride


1) ridicule

2) repeal

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

4) reject with rudeness or coldness (an offer or friendship)