VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 74

(1) heedless


1) conclusion of an oration

2) not noticing

3) move back suddenly

4) thunder

(2) retain


1) keep

2) sorcery

3) extreme poverty

4) suffering from indigestion

(3) pinnacle


1) peak

2) ease pain (without curing)

3) deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery

4) abandon

(4) titter


1) cut down

2) nervous giggle

3) (of a boat) turn over

4) small ornamental statuette(very small statue)

(5) maudlin


1) please intensely

2) middle class

3) arousing strong dislike

4) effusively sentimental

(6) contumacious


1) writ(written command issued by a court) summoning a witness to appear in court

2) stubborn and disobedient

3) moo

4) stingy

(7) rotunda


1) connected with history

2) circular building or hall covered with a dome

3) target of a hunt

4) deserter

(8) despise


1) e make into an institution

2) formal praise

3) entreat

4) look on with scorn

(9) partisan


1) willing to obey orders

2) one-sided

3) transient

4) strong inclination

(10) swathe


1) large city

2) swath

3) retaliation

4) (unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air

(11) headlong


1) hasty

2) windy

3) set free

4) unit of light energy (one candle's worth)

(12) prophylactic


1) used to prevent disease

2) hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog

3) pacify

4) courting favor by cringing and flattering

(13) kindred


1) quarrelsome

2) terrible

3) related

4) deadly

(14) debris


1) rubble

2) satiate

3) small (often rural) community whose members share work and income

4) frighten

(15) luxuriate


1) ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant

2) tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.

3) take pleasure in great comfort

4) tear or be torn quickly and violently

(16) zest


1) exaggerated

2) (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly

3) outer skin of an orange used for giving a special taste to food

4) embarrass

(17) epaulet(epaulet


1) te) ornament worn on the shoulder (of a uniform, etc.)

2) falling to pieces

3) wetland

4) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime

(18) vivisection


1) long for

2) act of dissecting living animals

3) border

4) program as for trial

(19) toss


1) throw lightly

2) bee-keeping

3) of glass

4) poison (of an animal)

(20) alias


1) range of knowledge

2) an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)

3) llduggery) dishonest behavior or action

4) attacking cherished traditions

(21) disenfranchise


1) number of points

2) meanly stingy

3) arrival

4) disfranchise

(22) flaunt


1) unsuited

2) made in an earlier period and usu. valuable

3) control

4) display ostentatiously

(23) orient


1) ecclesiastical

2) get one's bearings

3) twisting

4) perceive intuitively (by or as if by magic)

(24) sundry


1) shyness

2) soak

3) miscellaneous

4) come together

(25) arbiter


1) poke abruptly with something sharp

2) person with power to decide a matter in dispute

3) strongly opposed to social or political change

4) too certain to be disputed