VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 159

(1) cavil


1) of or pertaining to the people

2) step heavily with the feet

3) extremely severe

4) quibble

(2) mayhem


1) come to one as a gain

2) injury to body

3) sentry

4) impenetrable

(3) disseminate


1) ty) quality of being unsophisticated

2) understood (without actually being expressed)

3) distribute

4) (of rules) binding

(4) genre


1) particular variety of art or literature

2) sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing)

3) related to thinking about something constantly

4) characteristic frame of mind

(5) emancipate


1) having womanly traits

2) purest and highest embodiment

3) become less severe

4) set free

(6) dilate


1) expand

2) make perpetual

3) condition of being unable to feel pain

4) excuse

(7) intervene


1) low ship with sails (rowed along by slaves)

2) revere

3) come between

4) fierce

(8) obnoxious


1) offensive

2) infinite

3) deprived of (something valuable)

4) intruder

(9) approbation


1) approval

2) very important

3) support

4) nourishing substance

(10) strangle


1) waster

2) implied comparison

3) gully

4) kill by choking or suffocating

(11) indigence


1) poverty

2) move back suddenly

3) revert (to bad habits)

4) nourish

(12) indict


1) dilemma

2) vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle

3) charge

4) all-knowing

(13) dissertation


1) formal essay

2) joining

3) not spacious

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

(14) beware


1) excuse

2) be cautious (of)

3) public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes

4) wear a mask or disguise

(15) poise


1) good judgment with composure

2) fit of bad temper

3) fleshly

4) formal praise

(16) ruminant


1) entire range

2) like a spirit or fairy

3) neat

4) animal that ruminates

(17) tundra


1) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime

2) rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America

3) either of the correlated things

4) lead away from proper conduct

(18) affinity


1) capture

2) obligatory

3) based on experience

4) feeling of kinship

(19) paucity


1) played in an abrupt manner

2) shaving of the head especially by person entering religious orders

3) scarcity

4) without guile

(20) entourage


1) small piece or mark

2) beyond reasonable limits

3) trace

4) group of attendants

(21) swarm


1) have a tendency

2) large group of insects moving in a mass

3) capable of maintaining life

4) praise

(22) tramp


1) walk with a heavy step

2) contradict

3) meaningless word

4) used to prevent disease

(23) demographic


1) confuse

2) related to population balance

3) loud continous noise

4) eerie

(24) hiatus


1) gap

2) study of prehistoric life or fossils

3) huge

4) causing great fear

(25) dolorous


1) sorrowful

2) apply a lubricant to

3) prepare by mixing or combining

4) tight