VOCABULARY TEST 169
(1) stipend
1) flattery
2) decayed and foul-smelling
3) resorting to help when in trouble
4) pay for services
(2) inestimable
1) apparatus for making sounds
2) struggle
3) impossible to estimate
4) short-lived
(3) pertinacious
1) renounce under oath
2) lacking interest or effort
3) poisonous
4) holding tenaciously to an action
(4) theoretical
1) based on theory
2) miser
3) remembering
4) imagined
(5) disparate
1) winding
2) blame (not angrily but sadly)
3) basically different
4) quarrel
(6) religious
1) genuine
2) disease communicator
3) tear or cut to pieces
4) of religion
(7) reciprocate
1) do or give something in return
2) practical rule guiding conduct
3) core or marrow
4) based on assumptions or hypotheses
(8) equestrian
1) rider on horseback
2) spend too much time on minor points (esp. when finding fault)
3) based on theory
4) come together
(9) rancid
1) excessive interest in one's self
2) intelligent
3) having the odor of stale or decomposing fat
4) make thin
(10) plagiarize
1) burning
2) dull
3) increase in number by producing young
4) steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own
(11) fanfare
1) relating to stars
2) corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields
3) call by bugles or trumpets
4) violent scoundrel
(12) vegetate
1) agreement
2) live in a monotonous way (without interests or activity)
3) pertaining to existence
4) relating to paradise
(13) impair
1) range of knowledge
2) injure
3) uneasy feelings
4) artistic
(14) demean
1) theatrical
2) trembling
3) large wave of water
4) disgrace
(15) equable
1) something that discourages or deters
2) tranquil
3) annoy by repeated attacks
4) extremely aggressive and militant patriot
(16) ruffian
1) small ring
2) violent scoundrel
3) unwholesome
4) cock
(17) conviction
1) person or thing excess of what is necessary
2) meat of a deer
3) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime
4) false
(18) pass_off
1) present falsely
2) contradict
3) soothe an angry person
4) small light sailboat or rowboat
(19) axiom
1) self-evident truth requiring no proof
2) burst inward
3) a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played
4) someone easily fooled or deceived
(20) enormity
1) public revelation of something discreditable
2) hugeness (in a bad sense)
3) significance
4) someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing (without moving lips or jaws)
(21) purchase
1) one regarded as embodying a set image or type
2) (of writing) flowing
3) secure grasp or hold
4) practical person
(22) apex
1) motherly
2) indisputable
3) tip
4) something attached to but holding an inferior position
(23) corroborate
1) ban on commerce or other activity
2) confirm
3) modest
4) excessive interest in one's self
(24) adroit
1) skillful (in using mind or hand)
2) major classification, second to kingdom, of plants and animals
3) start
4) legal official of high rank
(25) foliage
1) make oneself tidy in appearance
2) present but not yet noticeable or active
3) masses of leaves
4) excessively fat
ANSWERS:
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