VOCABULARY TEST 14


(1) commonplace
1) harmful
2) salary
3) public speaker
4) ordinary



(2) compact
1) weaken
2) agreement
3) unruly
4) honor



(3) license
1) not spacious
2) grant condescendingly
3) official or legal permission
4) funeral ceremony



(4) crest
1) top (as of a hill or wave)
2) abusive
3) bloody
4) wool coat of a sheep



(5) hut
1) affectedly grand
2) move about in a spirited manner (proudly and confidently)
3) crude dwelling
4) crawl or creep on ground



(6) finale
1) explosion
2) food of the gods
3) conclusion
4) powerful



(7) jetsam
1) burst inward
2) one who is habitually cruel to weaker people
3) things thrown from a ship (to lighten the ship)
4) analyze (to discover what materials are present)



(8) breach
1) breaking of contract or duty
2) intellectuals
3) youthful
4) become worse in quality



(9) peregrination
1) generosity
2) touchy
3) treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect
4) journey



(10) layman
1) strikingly bright
2) harp on
3) man who is not a cleric
4) hostile feeling or intent



(11) foul
1) truthfulness
2) whim
3) suitable
4) very bad or disagreeable



(12) continence
1) fearful
2) self-restraint
3) making no attempt to change one's bad practices
4) stratagem(deceptive scheme)



(13) divulge
1) reveal
2) large wave of water
3) worsen
4) program as for trial



(14) semblance
1) outward appearance
2) courage
3) repentant
4) prudent



(15) incommodious
1) not spacious
2) tawny or grayish with streaks or spots (of animals)
3) middle class
4) resistant to



(16) rapt
1) calmness
2) take vengence for something or on behalf of someone
3) (of a person) worthy of esteem
4) engrossed



(17) ratiocination
1) reasoning
2) arise from
3) arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained
4) fantastic



(18) transcendental
1) going beyond common thought or ideas
2) basic
3) boorish
4) remove or get rid of something or someone unwanted



(19) levy
1) impose (a fine)
2) oval building with tiers of seats
3) 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern
4) sure of one's own righteousness



(20) gourmand
1) epicure
2) conventions
3) given to(having a tendency of) joking
4) entirely acceptable



(21) prot\'eg\'e
1) demanding much work or care
2) person receiving protection and support from a patron
3) ruddy
4) expressing irony



(22) vortex
1) range of knowledge
2) whirlwind
3) irregular
4) belief on slight evidence



(23) premise
1) winding
2) place formally in office
3) weaken
4) assumption



(24) alcove
1) testimony under oath
2) work out carefully
3) nook
4) dispute



(25) lucrative
1) slight knowledge
2) profitable
3) deep feeling of dislike
4) beg persistently


ANSWERS:
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