VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 139

(1) fleck


1) spot

2) turn into a god

3) bored with pleasure or dissipation

4) (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value

(2) vitiate


1) so small, trifling, or unimportant as to be easily disregarded

2) spoil the effect of

3) assist (someone in difficulty)

4) drifting wreckage

(3) credential


1) evidence concerning one's authority

2) of psyche

3) (of a sound) echoing

4) ruler in a monarchy

(4) incidence


1) deliverance from a charge

2) cut or knock down (a tree or a person)

3) rate of occurrence

4) restore to good condition

(5) suavity


1) urbanity

2) give up something (with reluctance)

3) uprightness

4) private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy

(6) gauche


1) ordinary

2) clumsy (in social behavior)

3) endanger

4) give up

(7) liability


1) meat of a deer

2) drawback

3) work or appoint as a deputy

4) new or newly coined word or phrase

(8) reticent


1) prescribed course of diet or exercise

2) oval building with tiers of seats

3) natural inclination

4) inclined to silence

(9) initiate


1) binding

2) begin

3) unwillingness

4) having minute hairs

(10) futile


1) plunder

2) useless

3) government ruled by old people

4) man employed to take care of horses

(11) allure


1) entice

2) immature

3) insert between

4) endanger

(12) droop


1) give in respectfully

2) bend or hang downward

3) rising above others

4) drowsy

(13) enrapture


1) hard to understand

2) dry up

3) flowing into

4) please intensely

(14) canto


1) metal block used for shaping metal or plastic

2) trick which makes someone take action

3) confirm

4) division of a long poem

(15) precipitant


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

2) witty saying

3) something that causes a substance in a chemical solution to separate out in solid form

4) make (a lawyer) leave the bar or the legal profession

(16) blight


1) additional object

2) plant disease

3) emotionally removed

4) idealistic but impractical

(17) solicitous


1) heavy and awkward to carry or wear

2) anxious

3) assumed

4) case for a sword blade

(18) repository


1) storehouse

2) soul

3) restore to a previous condition or position

4) experienced as if one were taking part in the experience of another

(19) dogmatic


1) opinionated

2) punishment

3) period of equal days and nights

4) frugality

(20) lurk


1) stealthily lie in waiting

2) strong desire

3) patience

4) partly transparent

(21) whittle


1) bind as servant or apprentice to master

2) easily approachable

3) pare

4) outward sign

(22) millennium


1) not harmonious

2) satisfy (thirst)

3) person with power to decide a matter in dispute

4) thousand-year period (as in the New Testament)

(23) pathetic


1) ) (of people or their behavior) respectful

2) burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection

3) mass of material sticking together

4) causing sadness, compassion, pity

(24) premonition


1) sticky

2) hollow

3) use of force to get someone to object

4) forewarning

(25) parallelism


1) place of spiritual expiation

2) support placed under or against something

3) state of being parallel

4) quantity of motion of a moving body