VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 140

(1) annex


1) indignation

2) shrewd in money matters

3) attach

4) untidy (of a woman or clothes)

(2) atheistic


1) denying the existence of God

2) move with body close to the ground

3) use of force to get someone to object

4) use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals

(3) stout


1) new or newly coined word or phrase

2) without an equal

3) diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas

4) rather fat

(4) libretto


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

2) text of an opera or oratorio

3) legislating branch of government

4) wise

(5) misnomer


1) wrong or improper name

2) opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed

3) assumption

4) without a material body

(6) vociferous


1) crisis

2) necessary requirement

3) nation governed by the people

4) clamorous

(7) sham


1) clumsy

2) serving to assist

3) pretend

4) like a meteor

(8) nettle


1) slightly obscure

2) irritate

3) sadly thoughtful (because of desires or memories)

4) suffering

(9) uniformity


1) condition of being unable to feel pain

2) sameness

3) violent whirlpool

4) highly excited

(10) peruse


1) (of someone) suspicious

2) great amount

3) read through with care

4) noisy confusion

(11) askew


1) crookedly

2) fertility

3) having an odor

4) metric

(12) hackles


1) first in rank or importance

2) sociable

3) word considered offensive

4) hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog

(13) regent


1) obscurity

2) a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child

3) begin

4) one who builds or works with stone or brick

(14) flit


1) stir up a fire or furnace

2) fly

3) long-lasting hatred

4) state of being alone

(15) baleful


1) evil

2) mixture as of metals

3) inconspicuous

4) person of high rank or position

(16) meek


1) flattery

2) submissive

3) daily

4) arrange into categories or grades

(17) bawdy


1) begin formally

2) indecent

3) exaggerated

4) habitually silent

(18) dart


1) light-hearted

2) confer

3) eat away

4) move or throw suddenly and quickly

(19) aptitude


1) fitness

2) pierce with holes

3) hopelessly sad (at the loss of something)

4) surrender

(20) occult


1) mysterious

2) flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river

3) disobedient

4) twisting

(21) jibe


1) chemical reaction that splits complex organic compounds

2) agree

3) judicial branch of government

4) confuse

(22) wean


1) divided into classes

2) solidly uniform

3) change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)

4) accustom a baby not to nurse

(23) precipice


1) cliff

2) strange

3) curved

4) stilent) causing plague

(24) deft


1) neat

2) quarrel

3) poor verse

4) bitter scolding or denunciation

(25) enduring


1) (of someone old) eccentric

2) nearness

3) addition

4) lasting