VOCABULARY TEST 60
(1) adjutant
1) staff officer assisting the commander
2) mass of material sticking together
3) significance
4) cheerfulness
(2) tender
1) offer formally
2) poverty
3) immature
4) social blunder
(3) renown
1) become less severe
2) stinginess
3) fame
4) move (a railway train) from one track to another
(4) luxuriant
1) abundant
2) lying
3) (esp. of an expression of the face) twisted
4) large volume
(5) quisling
1) turn upside down or inside out
2) yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war)
3) (of desire, wish, plan) recently begun
4) traitor who aids invaders
(6) indecisive
1) unscrupulous
2) list (of names)
3) marked by indecision
4) courteous
(7) inequity
1) tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid
2) promote or publicize (one's goods or service)
3) unfairness
4) charm
(8) foreboding
1) eliminate from consideration
2) freeze
3) premonition of evil
4) struggle and thrash about
(9) perturb
1) military unit
2) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words
3) back country
4) disturb greatly
(10) credo
1) of good upbringing
2) rise again
3) mixed indiscriminately
4) creed
(11) castrate
1) desecrating
2) excessive or uncontrollable excitement
3) restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs
4) remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person)
(12) laborious
1) restrain
2) outside edge especially of a round surface
3) damnation
4) demanding much work or care
(13) ostensible
1) lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life
2) apparent
3) trifle with
4) not noticing
(14) infantile
1) lack of consistency or agreement as between facts
2) of the law and its administration
3) childish
4) seriousness
(15) whet
1) sharpen
2) done with speed
3) unscrupulous
4) all-knowing
(16) maculated
1) spotted
2) swath
3) put or force in without being asked
4) excessively fat
(17) insuperable
1) refrain
2) insurmountable
3) stupid
4) distinctive part of the faces (as the eyes or mouth)
(18) jostle
1) remainder
2) plan in advance
3) shove
4) of psyche
(19) annul
1) odorous
2) hammerlike tool
3) make void
4) (of a bird with large wings) wave (the wings) lightly, rapidly, and irregularly
(20) effective
1) drink in
2) renunciation
3) poke abruptly with something sharp
4) effectual
(21) fructify
1) bear fruit
2) discord
3) (esp. of older people) vigorously active
4) dependent on something uncertain or in the future
(22) destitute
1) extremely poor
2) support
3) dock
4) talkative boaster
(23) impediment
1) crowd
2) capricious happening
3) hindrance
4) settle accounts
(24) venture
1) risk
2) make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)
3) flat mass of floating ice
4) nonmoral
(25) agog
1) highly excited
2) malodorous
3) someone seeking revenge
4) smugly and unconsciously foolish
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