VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 149

(1) duress


1) diminish

2) text of an opera or oratorio

3) forcible restraint, especially unlawfully

4) pertaining to drama

(2) contend


1) tell in confidence (to a person one trusts)

2) struggle

3) feverish

4) mortuary

(3) consensus


1) morally upright

2) wrongdoing

3) general agreement

4) humiliate by embarassing excessively

(4) expansive


1) last stop of railroad

2) puff or gust (of air, scent, etc.)

3) one who commits sabotage

4) (of a person) outgoing and sociable

(5) feral


1) blessing

2) hesitate

3) exhausting

4) (of an animal) not domestic

(6) nebulous


1) vague

2) untidy (of a woman or clothes)

3) withholding belief

4) determine in advance

(7) laity


1) lazy person

2) laypersons

3) familiar with

4) very small

(8) ruthless


1) not able to be erased

2) swollen

3) pitiless

4) announce

(9) ursine


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

2) characteristic frame of mind

3) cancel

4) bearlike

(10) composure


1) make coins

2) mental calmness

3) e,eyry) nest of a large bird of prey

4) call together

(11) dire


1) warning of disaster

2) repay

3) approve formally

4) imperceptible(not easily understood)

(12) tenuous


1) madly excited

2) (of a person or book) learned

3) detached plant shoot used in grafting

4) thin

(13) rent


1) force or push out

2) act or manner of using

3) tear made by rending

4) fast

(14) propagate


1) shake repeatedly from side to side

2) truthfulness

3) increase in number by producing young

4) individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances

(15) degradation


1) complicated situation (as in a play)

2) humiliation

3) suckle

4) warn or speak to with gentle disapproval

(16) nutritious


1) make invalid

2) become less severe

3) easily understood

4) providing nourishment

(17) variegate


1) vanity or self-love

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

3) faultfinding

4) support

(18) propitious


1) animal or plant living on another

2) great waterfall

3) favorable

4) fearless

(19) aristocracy


1) hereditary nobility

2) gloomy

3) careful no to cause offence

4) inflated

(20) somnambulist


1) fluent

2) sleepwalker

3) outward decorations

4) long established as a disease

(21) cumbersome


1) annoy

2) small body revolving around a larger one

3) beyond reasonable limits

4) heavy and awkward to carry or wear

(22) pedagogy


1) one that achieves unexpected success

2) sailing vessel built for great speed

3) teaching

4) flexible

(23) ape


1) deadly

2) essential or main point

3) imitate or mimic (a person's behavior or manner)

4) like wood

(24) rebuff


1) reject bluntly

2) not able to be pierced or entered

3) begin and continue (a war)

4) composed

(25) clipper


1) sailing vessel built for great speed

2) marked by indecision

3) conspicuously wicked, bad, or offensive

4) (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly