VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 11

(1) paramount


1) of a particular season

2) tending to overthrow or ruin

3) foremost in importance

4) expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death

(2) rakish


1) outmoded

2) indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

3) jaunty

4) lacking in spirit or energy

(3) merger


1) entreating

2) counterfeit

3) combination (of two business corporations)

4) not noticing

(4) effluvium


1) excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling

2) noxious(harmful) smell

3) unnoticeable

4) greed (for wealth)

(5) rancid


1) declare openly

2) having the odor of stale or decomposing fat

3) boisterous merrymaking

4) conciseness

(6) colloquy


1) destroy leaves

2) fierce

3) informal discussion

4) pierce with holes

(7) badinage


1) teasing conversation

2) indignation

3) (of likings and interests) universal

4) (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes

(8) chapel


1) without deceit

2) small church (in a prison, college, or hospital)

3) obvious

4) shrill, trumpetlike sound

(9) guise


1) outward appearance

2) swimming

3) divine gift

4) treasury

(10) thrifty


1) careful about money

2) point of origin

3) imagined

4) psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution

(11) holster


1) stir up a fire or furnace

2) poisonous

3) leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist)

4) sleep-causing

(12) unobtrusive


1) inconspicuous

2) rebel

3) conclusion of an oration

4) crushed oats used for making porridge

(13) waft


1) wasteful (of money)

2) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words

3) give a bodily form to

4) move gently (in air or in seas) by wind or waves

(14) stoic


1) stoical

2) hit quickly with the flat part of the hand

3) ransack

4) pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)

(15) aberration


1) deviation from the normal

2) complain

3) honor

4) tireless

(16) mitigate


1) causing nausea

2) back country

3) appease

4) puff or gust (of air, scent, etc.)

(17) calculated


1) delicate

2) scholarly article

3) deliberately planned

4) following in time or order

(18) taunt


1) a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played

2) full of self-admiration

3) small amount

4) deride or provoke

(19) dissection


1) tending to call up (emotions, memories)

2) analysis

3) take vengence for something or on behalf of someone

4) group of closely located islands

(20) jocose


1) worthless

2) mix in a confused way

3) given to(having a tendency of) joking

4) linger

(21) virus


1) hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food

2) of glass

3) pollute

4) disease communicator

(22) epoch


1) unspoiled

2) persuade by flattery

3) period of time

4) intruder

(23) niggardly


1) introductory statement

2) formless

3) place of refuge or shelter

4) meanly stingy

(24) mountebank


1) violation (of a rule or regulation)

2) cut down

3) amuse

4) charlatan

(25) disperse


1) possessing good health

2) intelligent

3) scatter

4) spying