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Friday, December 4, 2009

VOCABULARY TEST 166


(1) plane
1) hang about/around
2) attractive
3) carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood
4) childish



(2) consonance
1) rosy
2) severely critical
3) commit an offense
4) harmony



(3) abominable
1) gully
2) fault
3) physician specializing in delivery(assisting in giving birth) of babies
4) detestable



(4) predispose
1) frozen rain drop
2) sleeping
3) include
4) give an inclination toward (in advance)



(5) naivet\'e(naive
1) doctor specializing in ailments of the heart
2) ty) quality of being unsophisticated
3) inactive
4) negligent



(6) deport
1) send out of the country
2) mutual
3) reserved or aloof
4) attractive



(7) awry
1) act stupidly
2) masses of leaves
3) law enacted by the legislature
4) distorted



(8) qualify
1) copy
2) reach a necessary standard
3) lizard that changes color in different situations
4) soften by soaking in liquid



(9) executive
1) beat with a whip or flail
2) standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces
3) person having administrative authority
4) expand



(10) illusive
1) trick to deceive
2) make impossible
3) deceiving
4) distinguishable



(11) clown
1) purgative
2) limit
3) behaving like a slave
4) act stupidly



(12) devout
1) tending to cause death
2) denounce
3) pious
4) of low rank or position



(13) decree
1) lack of proper respect or reverence
2) most reliable
3) authoritative order
4) conclusion of an oration



(14) threat
1) dry food for livestock
2) pertaining to hell
3) yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war)
4) sign or warning (of coming danger)



(15) sadistic
1) green crust on old bronze works or copper
2) inclined to cruelty
3) an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)
4) strip a priest or minister of church authority



(16) incandescent
1) feeling of exaggerated or unfounded(ungrounded
2) depravity
3) strikingly bright
4) twisting



(17) bouillon
1) scholar who overemphasizes book learning, trivial details of learning, or technicalities
2) face courageously
3) become engaged to marry
4) clear beef (or meat) soup



(18) fraught
1) musical introduction to a long musical piece
2) one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously)
3) complicated situation (as in a play)
4) filled (with something unpleasant)



(19) abnegation
1) group of people who share some common quality
2) renunciation
3) small cavern
4) branching out



(20) impolitic
1) having absolute unchecked power
2) decrease in size or strength (after being full)
3) cut into small parts
4) not wise



(21) pusillanimous
1) dull
2) cowardly
3) mercy killing
4) resolve



(22) unearthly
1) peaceful
2) group that meets socially
3) hammerlike tool
4) not earthly



(23) irretrievable
1) quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)
2) balance
3) impossible to recover or regain
4) eat away



(24) dilettante
1) aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously)
2) de) front or face (of building)
3) sum
4) naive and trusting



(25) exegesis
1) explanation, especially of biblical(of the bible) passages
2) convenient features that helps to make life pleasant
3) tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid
4) sleep-causing


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