VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 133

(1) supplicate


1) boast

2) useless

3) (of someone) having insight

4) petition humbly

(2) climactic


1) relating to the highest point

2) dexterity

3) flirt

4) approval

(3) levee


1) earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

2) adhesive

3) familiar with

4) home

(4) precocious


1) direct vote by the entire electorate (on an important issue)

2) advanced in development

3) expressing possibility

4) pompous

(5) profusion


1) small bit or fragment

2) move heavily or clumsily

3) great amount

4) move back suddenly

(6) pinion


1) excessive

2) restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs

3) strip (as of clothes)

4) society ruled by the wealthy

(7) aquiline


1) curved

2) tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note

3) skill or sensitivity in dealing with people without causing offence

4) boorish

(8) squeamish


1) flexible

2) period of equal days and nights

3) worship of idols

4) easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things

(9) grievance


1) not noticing

2) debark

3) cause of complaint

4) motivated solely by money or gain

(10) requisition


1) tax of one-tenth (contributed to a church)

2) formal demand or request

3) systematic

4) lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life

(11) covenant


1) binding agreement between two groups or people

2) conduct or language inciting rebellion

3) religious image

4) protruding(sticking out)

(12) analogy


1) confused uproar

2) flowing together

3) weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness)

4) similarity

(13) amity


1) obvious

2) friendship

3) provide food and drink (for)

4) glowing ardor

(14) aphorism


1) pithy maxim or saying

2) beginning

3) illegal trade

4) humoring

(15) stagnant


1) denounce

2) act of keeping watch

3) skeptical or distrustful of human motives

4) (of water) not flowing (often bad-smelling)

(16) unassuming


1) person who uncritically conforms to the customs of a group

2) growth or increase in size by gradual addition

3) modest

4) monastery or convent

(17) malignant


1) approve

2) de) front or face (of building)

3) tending to cause death

4) wintry

(18) wrench


1) twist

2) leftover food

3) large group

4) witty thought or saying, usually short

(19) exigency


1) sparing in eating and drinking

2) urgent situation

3) plan in advance

4) substance that dissolves another

(20) brochure


1) good-natured

2) contending

3) pamphlet

4) inhabit in numbers large enough to be harmful

(21) accommodate


1) oblige or help someone

2) make drunk

3) act of finding oneself in society

4) soil

(22) subservient


1) behaving like a slave

2) waste matter

3) avaricious

4) roof of the mouth

(23) cavalcade


1) broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing

2) procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages

3) derived by reasoning

4) plant disease

(24) verbatim


1) convenient features that helps to make life pleasant

2) existing at birth

3) calmness

4) word for word

(25) sardonic


1) features especially of the face

2) scornfully mocking

3) minor objection or complaint

4) lack of proper respect or reverence