VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 88

(1) accretion


1) madly excited

2) growth or increase in size by gradual addition

3) place where a river can be crossed on foot

4) vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle

(2) diminution


1) believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided

2) cheat

3) lessening

4) redden

(3) acme


1) peak

2) raised platform for speakers or other important people

3) quality of being provident

4) person who does things too quickly without thinking

(4) sparse


1) not thick

2) candid

3) treasury

4) make (a liquid) less concentrated

(5) practical


1) fitful

2) based on experience

3) object (because of doubts, scruples)

4) lead-colored

(6) incapacitate


1) underline

2) authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court)

3) excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling

4) disable

(7) confine


1) lying on back

2) shut in an enclosed space

3) prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country

4) debark

(8) progenitor


1) ancestor

2) confused uproar

3) protest

4) moderate

(9) conflagration


1) not shiny

2) great fire

3) underlying character of a culture, group, etc.

4) low, indistinct, continuous sound

(10) palliate


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

2) lead away from proper conduct

3) ease pain (without curing)

4) inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract

(11) raiment


1) disguise

2) public declaration of principles

3) remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person)

4) clothing

(12) terminology


1) purgative

2) terms used in a science or art

3) make impossible

4) existing at the beginning (of time)

(13) inimitable


1) withholding belief

2) division into factions (esp. within a religious body)

3) matchless

4) indifference

(14) tribunal


1) inappropriate

2) court of justice

3) explanatory list of symbols on a map

4) authorized agent

(15) stink


1) effect

2) scornfully mocking

3) combativeness

4) stench

(16) vacillate


1) waver (in opinion)

2) tending to call up (emotions, memories)

3) repetition of beginning sound in poetry

4) logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion

(17) bard


1) redden

2) small boat

3) poet

4) assent

(18) dawdle


1) slip or slide

2) fallen fruit

3) in a state of rage

4) loiter

(19) brusque


1) blunt

2) praising

3) resonant

4) turn away from (a principle, norm)

(20) coiffure


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

2) deduce

3) reclining

4) hairstyle

(21) impotent


1) boredom

2) weak

3) commonplace

4) small surgical tool for making incisions

(22) sanguinary


1) bloody

2) machine that separates substances by whirling them

3) taking up again

4) willingness to take new ventures

(23) badger


1) pester

2) very carefully

3) not to be taken away

4) belittle

(24) garrulous


1) disease communicator

2) silent

3) loquacious

4) strike forcefully

(25) incredulity


1) tendency to disbelief

2) object of general attention

3) make discontented

4) connection