VOCABULARY TEST 70
(1) lethal
1) flabby
2) limit
3) deadly
4) grisly
(2) inveigle
1) delicate
2) of a title
3) deceive
4) path taken by a projectile
(3) brevity
1) one who is introspective or inclined to think more about oneself
2) make desolate
3) conciseness
4) dramatic poem set to music
(4) forward
1) moving slowly
2) presumptuous or bold
3) suitable (for a particular purpose although not necessarily morally correct)
4) marshal
(5) hilarity
1) boisterous mirth(merriment
2) flexible
3) art of effective communication
4) renounce upon oath
(6) cathartic
1) purgative
2) make (a bill) into law
3) very large number
4) private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy
(7) minuscule(minis
1) seize
2) support (a claim) with evidence
3) report
4) cule) extremely small
(8) assay
1) condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles
2) listing of information in tabular or book form
3) analyze (to discover what materials are present)
4) authoritative
(9) orientation
1) act of finding oneself in society
2) get one's bearings
3) bravery
4) reverse the order or position of
(10) apiculture
1) advocate of the extension of voting rights (for women)
2) additional object
3) bee-keeping
4) extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress
(11) panoramic
1) on or relating to the earth
2) denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view
3) discord
4) one who foretells the future
(12) mauve
1) tendency to disbelief
2) pale purple
3) illusive
4) comment
(13) effrontery
1) rudeness without any sense of shame
2) surmise
3) external
4) of the surface
(14) spurn
1) mass for the dead
2) reject disdainfully
3) self-restraint
4) steal things of small value
(15) chaffing
1) substance causing vomiting
2) bantering
3) ideal place, state, or society
4) period of ideal or peak condition
(16) sinecure
1) well-paid position with little responsibility
2) denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view
3) able to take on many forms
4) move furtively and secretly
(17) apropos
1) obligatory
2) thoroughly soaked
3) with reference to
4) pardon (an offense)
(18) collage
1) fame
2) work of art put together from fragments
3) give up something (with reluctance)
4) surrender something (stolen)
(19) recess
1) dissimilar
2) separate
3) one incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness
4) pause
(20) reaper
1) servile flatterer
2) one who harvests grain
3) avaricious
4) put into words
(21) itinerant
1) person having administrative authority
2) important in history
3) diabolic
4) wandering
(22) plumage
1) believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided
2) redden
3) bugbear
4) feathers of a bird
(23) subliminal
1) below the threshold of conscious perception
2) dig into (to get stone)
3) obvious
4) approve formally
(24) outfit
1) clothing or equipment for a special purpose
2) smear (as with paint)
3) inborn
4) short poem idealizing rural life
(25) heinous
1) paste that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls
2) very thin piece, usually of wood (cut from a surface with a sharp blade)
3) pommel
4) atrocious
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