VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 191

(1) expertise


1) specialized knowledge (in a particular field)

2) into parts

3) chaplain (in the armed forces)

4) sink to a lower level

(2) placate


1) pacify

2) collection of wild animals on exhibition

3) agreement

4) having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar)

(3) suffocate


1) state of depression or melancholy

2) entice

3) die or kill from lack of air

4) quarrelsome

(4) incursion


1) pertaining to hell

2) talking to oneself (esp. in a play)

3) temporary invasion

4) banish from a group

(5) intoxicate


1) pretend

2) eye defect which prevents proper focus

3) pouring forth

4) make drunk

(6) satiate


1) riddle

2) satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger)

3) filled with excited joy and pride

4) beginning

(7) circumvent


1) outwit

2) paste of flour and water (eaten when baked)

3) time long past

4) enthusiastic follower

(8) trenchant


1) eyesight

2) cutting

3) disapproval

4) ability to foresee future happenings

(9) pedant


1) ornamental clasp

2) concluding section of a musical or literary composition

3) poise

4) scholar who overemphasizes book learning, trivial details of learning, or technicalities

(10) auxiliary


1) attract

2) lacking in spirit

3) arrange (laws or rules) as a code

4) offering or providing help

(11) loom


1) clearly different from others of the same kind

2) harmonious

3) not genuine

4) appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged, indistinct, or distorted form)

(12) piscatorial


1) carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood

2) delicate

3) small drawing placed at the beginning or end of a chapter

4) pertaining to fishing

(13) matriarch


1) woman who rules a family or larger social group

2) reckless, desperate outlaw

3) stimulate or shock by an electric current

4) prudent

(14) antecede


1) arrangement by rank or standing

2) obligated

3) push forward

4) precede

(15) replenish


1) fill up again

2) gully

3) direct quick route

4) clear from blame or guilt

(16) motility


1) resistant to

2) capricious

3) tendency of a system or organism to maintain relative stability or internal equilibrium

4) ability to move spontaneously

(17) boor


1) rude, insensitive person

2) foul-smelling

3) warning of disaster

4) oddity

(18) asinine


1) powerful person

2) state strongly or positively

3) satiate

4) stupid

(19) morose


1) cover with a thin layer of gold

2) following

3) (of a skin or complexion) dark

4) ill-humored

(20) lien


1) oppose with arguments

2) extinct flying reptile

3) 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern

4) legal claim or right on a property

(21) embed(imbed)


1) enclose

2) taking up again

3) likely to change

4) fall sharply

(22) condescend


1) (of writing) flowing

2) make (something written) false by changing

3) (derog.) bestow courtesies with a superior air

4) hegm) pithy, compact saying

(23) hallucination


1) not applicable

2) delusion

3) person who cheats people

4) indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

(24) shove


1) plot outline

2) give a slight degree of a color or quality to

3) push forward

4) bully

(25) embargo


1) ban on commerce or other activity

2) courting favor by cringing and flattering

3) prevailing style

4) union