VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 15

(1) chaffing


1) short stiff hair

2) bantering

3) place of spiritual expiation

4) forerunners

(2) fathomless


1) harmony

2) too deep to be measured or understood

3) laugh (at)

4) in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude

(3) irreverence


1) lack of proper respect or reverence

2) movable

3) machine that separates substances by whirling them

4) droop

(4) tension


1) the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions

2) talk idly

3) stretching

4) deserving reverence

(5) slick


1) neglect of duty

2) correct (usually a text)

3) make smooth or glossy

4) lawsuit

(6) deposition


1) testimony under oath

2) mental keenness

3) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime

4) shameless and noticeable

(7) misapprehension


1) periodic

2) adhesive

3) error

4) calamity

(8) ghastly


1) rankle

2) one who studies reptiles

3) nonmoral

4) horrible

(9) imposture


1) make drunk

2) assuming a false identity

3) strip (as of clothes)

4) flabby

(10) valedictory


1) kill by choking or suffocating

2) stubborn and disobedient

3) plundering

4) pertaining to farewell

(11) rotundity


1) title or heading (in red print)

2) roundness

3) explain

4) move or swing back and forth

(12) remiss


1) dismay

2) gradual intrusion

3) make (a bill) into law

4) negligent

(13) bearing


1) lower

2) person who has a compulsive desire to steal

3) four-footed animal

4) deportment

(14) conformist


1) person who uncritically conforms to the customs of a group

2) send (something) spinning, often into the air, by striking with a light quick blow

3) formal

4) gigantic

(15) abstruse


1) contradict

2) resembling a horse

3) physically strong

4) obscure

(16) founder


1) angelic

2) person who establishes (an organization or business)

3) overregulated administrative system marked by red tape

4) deserter

(17) apposite


1) peaceful

2) bottomless

3) smoothness of speech

4) appropriate

(18) litigation


1) lawsuit

2) wordy

3) dominance especially of one nation over others

4) rankle

(19) lot


1) object used in making a determination at random

2) evident

3) make coins

4) killing of animals for food

(20) assurance


1) firm statement that something is certainly true

2) of the influence of the mind on the body (esp. with respect to disease)

3) social or moral custom

4) being only one

(21) catcall


1) make whole

2) admit fresh air into to replace stale air

3) shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match)

4) of the law and its administration

(22) depravity


1) self-governing

2) extreme corruption

3) full of life

4) accustom a baby not to nurse

(23) lilliputian


1) extremely small

2) search thoroughly

3) messenger

4) after death (as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death)

(24) bestow


1) quality of being true

2) confer

3) unspoiled

4) graze

(25) pacifist


1) one opposed to force

2) fastidious

3) read through with care

4) rejoicing