VOCABULARY TEST 111
(1) dormer
1) window projecting upright from roof
2) sceptic
3) deserter
4) based on experience
(2) exonerate
1) acquit
2) army unit made up of four or more companies
3) state confidently
4) hiding place
(3) prod
1) text of an opera or oratorio
2) poke (with a pointed object)
3) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law
4) belief on slight evidence
(4) woe
1) dante) trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)
2) intentionally hidden
3) long narrow container for feeding farm animals
4) great sorrow
(5) bode
1) foreshadow
2) apparatus for making sounds
3) temporary encampment
4) firm statement that something is certainly true
(6) sinister
1) deserve
2) refusal of any compromise
3) stray or fall behind (a main group)
4) evil
(7) diatribe
1) bitter scolding or denunciation
2) pleasantly fat
3) play and jump about happily
4) one who foretells the future
(8) ultimate
1) final
2) causing nausea
3) slanderous remark
4) bodily (rather than spiritual)
(9) homely
1) unnatural and forced
2) without deceit
3) not good-looking
4) wandering
(10) horticultural
1) width
2) pertaining to cultivation of gardens
3) uneasiness
4) producing many young, fruits, or seeds
(11) maneuver(manoeu
1) abnormal
2) neglect of duty
3) Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)
4) ver) strategic military or naval movement (done for training purposes)
(12) ethos
1) submissive
2) give a slight degree of a color or quality to
3) underlying character of a culture, group, etc.
4) apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction, etc.
(13) pretext
1) impenetrable
2) direct quick route
3) phrase dulled in meaning by repetition
4) excuse
(14) rolling
1) clumsy
2) beautiful clothes for a special occasion
3) gain time as by postponing an action
4) (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes
(15) countermand
1) cancel
2) announce
3) pertaining to induction or proceeding from the specific to the general
4) person or thing excess of what is necessary
(16) verbalize
1) swamp gas
2) put into words
3) requiring sitting
4) sharp upslope of a hill
(17) pejorative
1) opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed
2) annoy by repeated attacks
3) windstorm
4) (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value
(18) capricious
1) dissolve
2) play and jump about happily
3) precision
4) unpredictable
(19) suffocate
1) soften by soaking in liquid
2) forcible restraint, especially unlawfully
3) disconcert
4) die or kill from lack of air
(20) abstract
1) tending to improve
2) place where different trees and shrubs are studied and exhibited
3) divided into classes
4) theoretical
(21) mock
1) unpleasant high sharp sound
2) ridicule
3) able to spring back into shape
4) droop
(22) protean
1) object believed to have spiritual powers
2) attack (as with missiles or bombs)
3) able to take on many forms
4) uprightness
(23) quack
1) middle class
2) dry up
3) division into two opposite parts
4) charlatan
(24) capacious
1) of a sect
2) turn to stone
3) spacious
4) exclamation
(25) quibble
1) extremely dry
2) please intensely
3) minor objection or complaint
4) diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas
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