VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 158

(1) capacious


1) food of the gods

2) one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs

3) move with body close to the ground

4) spacious

(2) distrait


1) (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language

2) effort

3) shy and reserved (of a person)

4) absentminded

(3) auroral


1) pertaining to the aurora borealis

2) deceptive scheme

3) insignificant

4) border upon

(4) waffle


1) easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things

2) branching out

3) speak equivocally about an issue

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

(5) benediction


1) exit

2) n. money given to sb who has done one a service

3) stir up

4) blessing

(6) orientation


1) large volume

2) act of finding oneself in society

3) make unnecessary

4) one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather)

(7) gentility


1) unpleasant high sharp sound

2) resting

3) those of gentle birth

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

(8) motif


1) dining hall

2) distance around something

3) theme

4) decode

(9) farce


1) increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage

2) tentative

3) beginner

4) broad comedy

(10) skirmish


1) plants of a region or era

2) minor fight

3) machine that separates substances by whirling them

4) (of power) complete

(11) scion


1) mutual relationship

2) skin disease (esp. of domestic animals) marked by loss of hair

3) detached plant shoot used in grafting

4) nation governed by the people

(12) scuffle


1) infection (by contact)

2) thin surface layer (of good quality wood, glued to a base of inferior material)

3) binding

4) struggle confusedly

(13) icon(ikon)


1) hard unpleasant work

2) experiencing nausea

3) religious image

4) scolding woman

(14) succumb


1) foretell

2) mental disorder marked by confusion

3) leave helpless on a deserted island or coast

4) yield (to something overwhelming)

(15) pronounced


1) unharmed

2) distinct

3) based on experience

4) thin and wasted (from hunger or illness)

(16) musty


1) brief explanation note or translation of a difficult expression

2) stale (in odor or taste)

3) greatness (in size or extent)

4) ecclesiastical

(17) milieu


1) social environment

2) abundance

3) good-natured

4) extremely hungry

(18) nascent


1) incipient

2) lazy

3) place under water

4) attacking

(19) confidant(confi


1) dante) trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)

2) complicated situation (as in a play)

3) father

4) former occupant of a post

(20) nonplus


1) sudden flood or rush

2) state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age

3) put at a loss

4) soul

(21) pyromaniac


1) concerning alchemy or magic

2) person with an insane desire to set things on fire

3) highly successful action or sudden attack

4) decree

(22) impel


1) fragments (esp. from a destroyed building)

2) drive or force onward

3) infallibility

4) tiny

(23) prelate


1) enclosure for birds

2) reddish

3) green crust on old bronze works or copper

4) church dignitary

(24) perfunctory


1) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words

2) musical repetition

3) done routinely and with little care

4) deserving high respect

(25) chasm


1) devoted to the pleasures of the sense

2) te) ornament worn on the shoulder (of a uniform, etc.)

3) weak

4) abyss