VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 131

(1) bask


1) besiege or attack (with an army)

2) painting in only one color

3) luxuriate

4) doctor who treats mental diseases

(2) tryst


1) help bring about

2) meeting arranged by lovers

3) feverish

4) direct quick route

(3) pendulous


1) hanging

2) main wooden stem of a tree

3) reprove severely

4) great fire

(4) beget


1) warlike

2) give shape to

3) condition of being squalid

4) father

(5) revert


1) full of flowers

2) excuse

3) border

4) relapse

(6) blurt


1) irreverent

2) utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement

3) hesitate for ethical reasons

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

(7) adroit


1) skillful (in using mind or hand)

2) make smooth or glossy

3) position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point)

4) vanity or self-love

(8) clapper


1) adage

2) the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions

3) striker (tongue) of a bell

4) clumsy person

(9) typhoon


1) lack of physical or mental energy

2) loop formed in a rope

3) tropical hurricane or cyclone

4) give up

(10) ponderous


1) (of beliefs) against accepted opinion

2) ungrateful person (not expressing thanks)

3) having great weight

4) accidental

(11) denounce


1) growing or spreading uncontrollably

2) adopt

3) condemn

4) place of spiritual expiation

(12) chastise


1) mental disorder marked by confusion

2) noisy confusion

3) worldly wise and urbane

4) punish as by beating

(13) application


1) diligent attention

2) general agreement

3) wild tumult(commotion)

4) sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing)

(14) contention


1) assertion

2) lover of luxury

3) acal) fiendish

4) final outcome

(15) prodigious


1) enormous

2) large in quantity

3) state of being undecided

4) brilliant

(16) disclose


1) shabby and dirty

2) having the odor of musk

3) long for

4) reveal

(17) concise


1) capricious happening

2) top (as of a hill or wave)

3) brief and compact

4) youthful

(18) bully


1) one who is habitually cruel to weaker people

2) pick out from others (to kill the weakest members)

3) weaken

4) suspended action

(19) temper


1) marriageable

2) work or appoint as a deputy

3) moderate

4) waster

(20) heterogeneous


1) one who feigns illness to escape duty

2) impressionable

3) dissimilar

4) not planned

(21) cryptic


1) mysterious

2) merriment

3) ornamental clasp

4) fight

(22) conjecture


1) expressing irony

2) twist in coils

3) surmise

4) act of finding oneself in society

(23) fermentation


1) ardent

2) chemical reaction that splits complex organic compounds

3) support militantly

4) meddlesome

(24) modicum


1) testify

2) weaken

3) limited quantity

4) boisterous mirth(merriment

(25) automaton


1) suffering

2) think up

3) mechanism that imitates actions of humans

4) mournful