VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 124

(1) tantamount


1) filled with great surprise or fear

2) equivalent in effect or value

3) set free

4) pamphlet

(2) mundane


1) roundabout

2) worldly as opposed to spiritual

3) walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement

4) recent convert

(3) ecosystem


1) property inherited from a father

2) ecological community together with its environment

3) long for

4) admit

(4) mulct


1) defraud a person of something

2) restrain

3) thwart

4) lizard that changes color in different situations

(5) historical


1) turn into a god

2) the ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus

3) sore place appearing on the skin inside or outside the body

4) connected with history

(6) sportive


1) warlike

2) playful

3) deep

4) druggist

(7) parvenu


1) system of ideas characteristic of a group or culture

2) notoriously bad

3) upstart

4) a place where bees are kept

(8) swamp


1) wetland

2) increase in number by producing young

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

4) state of being undecided

(9) plutocracy


1) poem or song expressing lamentation (for the dead)

2) omission of words from a text

3) remove or get rid of something or someone unwanted

4) society ruled by the wealthy

(10) larceny


1) blacken

2) theft

3) throw forcefully

4) make unconscious or numb as by a blow

(11) sunder


1) poisonous

2) separate

3) unit of weight for precious stones

4) wrestle

(12) well-bred


1) satiate

2) plead

3) of good upbringing

4) written symbols

(13) adorn


1) decorate

2) conquer

3) me) gay

4) clear from blame

(14) gamut


1) extremely hungry

2) entire range

3) rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America

4) fantastic

(15) mace


1) state of violent agitation

2) ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority

3) knowledge

4) marked by inventive skill

(16) miscreant


1) run away secretly with the intention of getting married

2) make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle

3) wretch

4) put into a lower or worse place

(17) prohibitive


1) headland

2) so high as to prohibit purchase or use

3) distaste

4) unalterable

(18) camaraderie


1) put an end to forcibly

2) rhythmical throbbing of arteries

3) story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)

4) good-fellowship

(19) prance


1) move about in a spirited manner (proudly and confidently)

2) speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner

3) incapable of being pacified

4) period of ideal or peak condition

(20) frustrate


1) mixture as of metals

2) odd in an old-fashioned way

3) grand suggesting great expense

4) thwart

(21) impetus


1) moving force

2) comic

3) habitually intoxicated

4) sensual

(22) onus


1) envy

2) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime

3) burden

4) scorn

(23) devotee


1) run away secretly with the intention of getting married

2) enthusiastic follower

3) become unsteady and fall down

4) sky blue

(24) impart


1) confuse

2) grant a share of

3) mournful

4) produced by fire

(25) lurid


1) earliest form of an organism

2) tendency to speak or write of oneself excessively

3) ecclesiastical

4) wild