VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 54

(1) bucolic


1) rustic

2) drive away

3) begin

4) something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to honor the memory of a person or event

(2) lackluster


1) lacking luster(shine

2) egotistic

3) stinging

4) model

(3) exempt


1) gift for finding valuable things by accident

2) not subject to a duty or obligation

3) relating to cooking or kitchen

4) not good-looking

(4) cornucopia


1) attacking cherished traditions

2) show by example

3) horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing with fruit and grain

4) expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.

(5) subsistence


1) exhibiting rainbowlike colors

2) disease communicator

3) testimony under oath

4) existence

(6) kleptomaniac


1) heavier or larger on one side than the other

2) person who has a compulsive desire to steal

3) quality of being very old

4) brief flash of light

(7) foster


1) appease

2) thin and wasted (from hunger or illness)

3) rear

4) shriveled

(8) primary


1) first in rank or importance

2) isolation

3) (animal, person, or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place

4) sudden sharp turn or twist

(9) visionary


1) questioner (especially harsh)

2) glassy residue from smelting metal

3) rear

4) produced by imagination

(10) plane


1) (of a bird) sing

2) three-pronged spear

3) carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood

4) woman whom a man loves

(11) fulminate


1) terrorize

2) abyss

3) work or appoint as a deputy

4) thunder

(12) incubate


1) decode

2) rear

3) hatch

4) smoothness of speech

(13) blowhard


1) N: split

2) full of self-admiration

3) talkative boaster

4) devout

(14) exhale


1) careless

2) breathe out

3) study of prison management and criminal rehabilitation

4) painting in only one color

(15) indenture


1) separate

2) bind as servant or apprentice to master

3) plants of a region or era

4) permitting light to pass through freely

(16) dissemble


1) (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language

2) disguise

3) indisputable

4) indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said)

(17) luminary


1) squabble

2) bantering

3) celebrity (in a specific field)

4) calm and unexcitable

(18) compunction


1) black volcanic rock

2) impartial

3) remorse

4) prose or verse composition to be performed by actors

(19) withdrawn


1) irritate

2) nearing

3) natural inclination

4) introverted

(20) brawn


1) rebellion

2) rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds)

3) with identity concealed

4) human muscle

(21) odious


1) compulsive habitual need

2) having womanly traits

3) arousing strong dislike

4) trifle with

(22) insubordination


1) insolent

2) leap or spring

3) disobedience

4) turn over

(23) purported


1) kill by choking or suffocating

2) alleged

3) stare foolishly

4) first in rank or importance

(24) balmy


1) soft and mild (of air)

2) error

3) environment

4) move the fingers and hands awkwardly (in search of something)

(25) muddle


1) cowlike

2) map-maker

3) confuse

4) (of someone old) eccentric