VOCABULART TEST 148
(1) perjury
1) false testimony while under oath
2) contact that keeps parties in communication
3) form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly
4) reject disdainfully
(2) ford
1) place into a case
2) small exclusive group of people
3) place where a river can be crossed on foot
4) time for rest
(3) heterodox
1) (of beliefs) against accepted opinion
2) weird
3) quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)
4) pare
(4) flutter
1) look on with scorn
2) draw
3) (of a bird with large wings) wave (the wings) lightly, rapidly, and irregularly
4) steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own
(5) blemish
1) spread throughout
2) expurgate
3) lover of luxury
4) mar
(6) predator
1) predatory animal or bird
2) harshness
3) state as a necessary condition (of an agreement)
4) cure-all
(7) wretch
1) miserable person
2) willingness to take new ventures
3) neat and trim in appearance
4) prepare by mixing or combining
(8) blush
1) examination of accounts of a business
2) frustrate
3) pertaining to the art of delineating
4) become red in the face (from embarrassment or shame)
(9) ample
1) lawyer in the lower court of law
2) slow
3) enough
4) having great weight
(10) sovereignty
1) deep feeling of dislike
2) use equivocal language to deceive people
3) respectable
4) complete independence and self-government (of a country)
(11) fervent
1) irreverence
2) capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around)
3) ardent
4) an error involving time in a story
(12) pious
1) acquire
2) devout
3) crystal clear
4) mutually agreed on
(13) artery
1) return of part of a payment
2) full of self-admiration
3) blood-vessel
4) assertion
(14) ovoid
1) continue steadily in spite of difficulties
2) egg-shaped
3) sullen
4) dominance especially of one nation over others
(15) decorum
1) propriety
2) blessedness
3) incapable of being pacified
4) think up
(16) gory
1) furnisher of foodstuffs
2) deviate
3) decree
4) bloody
(17) tendentious
1) difficult to understand
2) promoting a particular point of view
3) drug that relieves pain or trouble
4) clergyman attached to a chapel
(18) blurt
1) conventions
2) greediness for wealth
3) utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement
4) full of pores
(19) affidavit
1) arrangement of words in the form of poetry (by accentual rhythm)
2) violation of a law
3) cause to accept a doctrine without questioning it
4) written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law)
(20) preempt
1) prevent in advance
2) trick
3) study of prehistoric life or fossils
4) pertaining to the art of delineating
(21) callus
1) travel
2) area of thick hard skin
3) one who builds or works with stone or brick
4) stretch out full on ground
(22) forum
1) lengthen
2) public square of an ancient Roman city
3) miscellaneous
4) social environment
(23) ancestry
1) area of thick hard skin
2) daily
3) rise again
4) family descent
(24) tan
1) laugh (at)
2) convert (hide) into leather
3) severe dizziness
4) deep
(25) mode
1) prevailing style
2) comfort in sorrow or trouble
3) flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river
4) a place where bees are kept
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