VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 147

(1) nihilist


1) composed

2) one who considers traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless

3) person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment

4) love deeply and respect highly

(2) proscenium


1) part of stage in front of curtain

2) refer indirectly

3) punish by placing in a wooden frame or pillory

4) effulgent

(3) transitory


1) narrow space between things

2) someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing (without moving lips or jaws)

3) transient

4) adjacent to

(4) disburse


1) renovate

2) join

3) arrangement of words in the form of poetry (by accentual rhythm)

4) pay out (as from a fund)

(5) skimp


1) given to complaining

2) clamorous

3) self-imposed punishment for sin

4) provide or use scantily

(6) quarantine


1) isolation of a person, place, or ship to prevent spread of infection

2) unruly

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

4) preceding events that influence what comes later

(7) flora


1) observable facts

2) silent

3) vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young

4) plants of a region or era

(8) precept


1) discuss lightly or glibly

2) scrupulous

3) third in order or rank

4) practical rule guiding conduct

(9) valid


1) theoretical

2) mix

3) reveal

4) logically convincing

(10) acoustics


1) bookish

2) marked by inventive skill

3) distinctive behavioral trait

4) science of sound

(11) anesthetic


1) soothe an angry person

2) substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness

3) incipient

4) harmony

(12) canine


1) stronghold

2) renovate

3) related to dogs

4) sad

(13) stupefy


1) (of things and place) dirty and dull

2) warlike

3) assumed

4) stun

(14) prune


1) cut away

2) detest

3) main wooden stem of a tree

4) elliptic

(15) curator


1) go through or across

2) superintendent

3) harm someone's reputation

4) derived by reasoning

(16) daub


1) occupy fully

2) property inherited from a father

3) smear (as with paint)

4) one who builds or works with stone or brick

(17) philology


1) room to move

2) complain

3) study of language or words

4) boldness

(18) lustrous


1) shining

2) split or sever

3) title or heading (in red print)

4) army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers

(19) kismet


1) study of prehistoric life or fossils

2) fate

3) representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols

4) slavishly attentive

(20) dishonor


1) all-knowing

2) made up of a variety of parts

3) match

4) disgrace

(21) transpose


1) study of prehistoric life or fossils

2) reverse the order or position of

3) de) front or face (of building)

4) circular building or hall covered with a dome

(22) hazard


1) element that is a creature's natural environment

2) insert improperly

3) venture

4) pertaining to conversational or common speech

(23) sinewy


1) incriminate

2) (of meat) tough

3) official of ancient Rome elected by the plebians to protect their rights

4) metric

(24) compartment


1) cloying sweet

2) sustaining

3) one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided

4) abyss

(25) adverse


1) disposed to revenge

2) going against

3) severely critical

4) climb by crawling with difficulties