VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 53

(1) militate


1) dante) trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)

2) aqueduct

3) sameness leading to boredom

4) work against

(2) resuscitate


1) conducive to mental or physical health

2) deep-rooted

3) revive

4) sorcery

(3) lucid


1) interdependent relationship (between groups, species) often mutually beneficial

2) easily understood

3) lowest point

4) weaken

(4) opus


1) saying farewell

2) slanderous remark

3) trip and almost fall

4) work (esp. musical composition)

(5) transcendent


1) token of disgrace

2) exceeding ordinary limits

3) outcome

4) struggle and thrash about

(6) relish


1) cancel

2) enjoy

3) be violently disturbed

4) cause to accept a doctrine without questioning it

(7) consummate


1) use equivocal language to deceive people

2) complete

3) good judgment with composure

4) one who builds or works with stone or brick

(8) implode


1) seller

2) change of form

3) burst inward

4) lack of caring

(9) pachyderm


1) very important

2) sweet sounding

3) thick-skinned animal

4) act of assuming a human body and human nature

(10) beneficial


1) annoy by repeated attacks

2) helpful

3) not harmonious

4) pronounce indistinctly

(11) bestial


1) beastlike

2) boastful

3) easily deceived

4) tending to include all

(12) errant


1) honor

2) long narrow container for feeding farm animals

3) small model

4) wandering (esp. in search of adventure)

(13) germinate


1) arrogant

2) impossible to estimate

3) tremble

4) cause to sprout

(14) entreat


1) consecrate

2) incriminate

3) plead

4) characteristic frame of mind

(15) abscission


1) cutting off

2) (of a person) bold

3) face courageously

4) enormous

(16) prop


1) full of life

2) support placed under or against something

3) fear or hatred of foreigners

4) break (a law)

(17) suborn


1) extremely (offensively) obvious

2) deputize

3) accuse of or implicate in a crime

4) persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury)

(18) bandy


1) having womanly traits

2) discuss lightly or glibly

3) perfectionist

4) hasten

(19) strew


1) delicate skill

2) prudence

3) bury

4) spread randomly

(20) mire


1) entangle

2) cloying sweet

3) shorten

4) abnormal or deviant

(21) incommodious


1) threatening

2) not spacious

3) something that discourages or deters

4) beg

(22) reprove


1) suggestive of something (in the past)

2) inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract

3) censure

4) following

(23) flicker


1) objectionable

2) be violently disturbed

3) burn unsteadily or fitfully

4) enjoy

(24) ventral


1) find out for certain

2) abdominal

3) easily understood

4) lowest point

(25) amnesty


1) slow

2) pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)

3) genuine

4) imagined