VOCABULARY TEST 2
(1) insinuate
1) stormy
2) that cannot be impeached
3) ward off a blow
4) hint
(2) prophetic
1) very important
2) shriveled
3) of a prophet or prophecy
4) unmanageable
(3) leery
1) entreating
2) fragments (esp. from a destroyed building)
3) medieval chemistry
4) (of someone) suspicious
(4) violate
1) narrow in scope or outlook
2) pale
3) break (a law)
4) comment
(5) tepid
1) art and science of preparing and serving good food
2) remove or get rid of something or someone unwanted
3) conscientious
4) lukewarm
(6) amiable
1) delayed
2) agreeable
3) explosion
4) dramatic poem set to music
(7) fetid(foetid)
1) malodorous
2) invention
3) spend too much time on minor points (esp. when finding fault)
4) beggar
(8) garish
1) strategem to gain an advantage
2) inattentive or unmindful
3) overbright in color
4) match
(9) swathe
1) meal
2) unrefined
3) swath
4) humiliate by embarassing excessively
(10) inchoate
1) windy
2) step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish)
3) catch sight of (something distant)
4) (of desire, wish, plan) recently begun
(11) gibe
1) desert
2) mock
3) (of the skin) yellowish and unhealthy-looking
4) foretell
(12) bereaved
1) deprived of (someone beloved through death)
2) something that nourishes
3) not requited
4) weaken
(13) approbation
1) pertaining to hell
2) allowing much freedom
3) not knowing
4) approval
(14) gazette
1) of the common people
2) systematic
3) stinging
4) official periodical publication
(15) smother
1) lengthen
2) place of safety
3) kill from lack of air
4) mental keenness
(16) mason
1) waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building
2) ghost
3) one who builds or works with stone or brick
4) surrender of prisoner by one state to another
(17) hull
1) goblet
2) husk
3) squander
4) tendency to keep together
(18) fester
1) entire range
2) traitor who aids invaders
3) rankle
4) false testimony while under oath
(19) detain
1) keep waiting
2) having the odor of musk
3) confused uproar
4) close observation of a person (esp. one under suspicion)
(20) trough
1) state of depression or melancholy
2) bleach
3) relating to cooking or kitchen
4) long narrow container for feeding farm animals
(21) secrete
1) mix together
2) conceal
3) demanding and leaving no choice
4) sharpen (a tool)
(22) concerted
1) mutually agreed on
2) not yet decided or settled
3) narrow-mindedness
4) inform
(23) selective
1) children
2) not good-looking
3) careful in choosing
4) like a fox
(24) itinerary
1) plan of a trip
2) small church (in a prison, college, or hospital)
3) room to move
4) funeral song
(25) antiquated
1) cause to accept a doctrine without questioning it
2) obsolete
3) disheartened
4) temporary moderation (of disease symptoms)
ANSWERS:
(1)4 (2)3 (3)4 (4)3 (5)4 (6)2 (7)1 (8)3 (9)3 (10)4 (11)2 (12)1 (13)4 (14)4 (15)3 (16)3 (17)2 (18)3 (19)1 (20)4 (21)2 (22)1 (23)3 (24)1 (25)2
