VOCABULARY TEST 79
(1) digression
1) wandering away from the subject
2) condition of being unable to feel pain
3) relating to the art of debate
4) phrase repeated throughout a song or poem
(2) viand
1) final
2) food
3) capable of sensation and conscious
4) not good-looking
(3) grotto
1) scholar who overemphasizes book learning, trivial details of learning, or technicalities
2) make secret plans
3) small cavern
4) command
(4) misogynist
1) hater of woman
2) narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
3) inclined to
4) examination of accounts of a business
(5) palate
1) indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)
2) support placed under or against something
3) region near heaven or hell where certain souls are kept
4) roof of the mouth
(6) staid
1) calm
2) serious and sedate
3) person who establishes (an organization or business)
4) marriageable
(7) fit
1) bottomless
2) inclined to
3) sudden outburst of an illness or feeling
4) not wise
(8) flighty
1) make beloved
2) distribute
3) dull
4) (esp. of a woman's behavior) capricious
(9) ichthyology
1) petty criticism
2) candid
3) prevent by taking action in advance
4) study of fish
(10) broil
1) hackneyed
2) false belief
3) procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages
4) cook by direct heat
(11) sumptuous
1) logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion
2) accuse of or implicate in a crime
3) odd
4) grand suggesting great expense
(12) exact
1) think up
2) distribute
3) capricious
4) demand and obtain by force
(13) unassuming
1) modest
2) turn to for help
3) lively or animated
4) related to seed or semen
(14) foible
1) scrupulous
2) give up temporarily
3) taking pains
4) small weakness of character
(15) confound
1) l (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life
2) confuse
3) make bitter
4) sustaining
(16) concede
1) bruise
2) admit
3) deeply established
4) provide food and drink (for)
(17) flora
1) multi-colored (as of a garment worn by a jester)
2) comic
3) plants of a region or era
4) hurl downward
(18) constitution
1) force or push out
2) idealistic but impractical
3) constituting
4) bordering on(adjacent to) the sea
(19) convulsion
1) moderate
2) warning of disaster
3) violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness)
4) supplement to the body of a will
(20) barb
1) sharp projection from fishhook, arrow, or other object
2) throw lightly
3) restraining rope fastened to the collar of an animal (to control it)
4) travel
(21) manacle
1) sleepwalker
2) restrain
3) rear
4) slander
(22) eddy
1) swirling current of water, air, etc.
2) pick out from others (to kill the weakest members)
3) having great volume (as of a garment or container)
4) decorative edge of hanging threads
(23) unaccountable
1) pointed tool used for piercing
2) puzzle
3) push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude
4) unexplicable
(24) revile
1) public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes
2) not requited
3) surround with armed forces
4) attack with abusive language
(25) defunct
1) (of a person) having reason
2) memoirs
3) dead
4) occupy fully
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