VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 37

(1) comatose


1) charlatan

2) following

3) in a coma

4) edge (at the top of a cliff)

(2) bigot


1) chain

2) divided into two branches

3) seize another's power or rank (without legal authority)

4) one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics)

(3) flotsam


1) drifting wreckage

2) warlike

3) pay attention to

4) man or farmer owning small estate

(4) unrequited


1) squabble

2) begin to grow

3) not requited

4) abstain from

(5) sever


1) separate

2) skillful (in using mind or hand)

3) informal discussion

4) express evil satisfaction

(6) postmortem


1) society ruled by the wealthy

2) mistaken

3) autopsy

4) infallibility

(7) callous


1) unchangeable

2) creed

3) hardened

4) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law

(8) expurgate


1) hard and unbending

2) illegal

3) refutation

4) clean

(9) fluster


1) push forward

2) confuse

3) base of a tree trunk left after the rest has been cut down

4) baffle or confuse by a difficult problem

(10) nugatory


1) noisy quarrel

2) broad

3) worthless

4) adjacent to

(11) invective


1) contending

2) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words

3) thin and wasted (from hunger or illness)

4) abuse

(12) brawny


1) muscular

2) strong longing to travel

3) mar

4) warmly friendly

(13) nutrition


1) infallibility

2) convenient features that helps to make life pleasant

3) process of nourishing or being nourished

4) many in number or kind

(14) bilious


1) lean and angular

2) incomplete

3) inharmonious

4) suffering from indigestion

(15) raconteur


1) story-teller

2) projection

3) sudden frenzied rush (of panic-stricken animals or people)

4) person who verbally harasses others

(16) artifice


1) admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote)

2) deception

3) inappropriate

4) extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress

(17) wince


1) quack

2) cautious

3) move back suddenly

4) (of speech) filled with passion

(18) tarry


1) pertaining to land or its cultivation

2) linger

3) correct spelling

4) wasteful (of money)

(19) spat


1) (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline

2) squabble

3) assemble

4) friendship

(20) ward


1) metal pin used for fastening metal plates together

2) puzzle

3) sleeping

4) administrative division of a city

(21) maculated


1) persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury)

2) man who is courting a woman

3) group of attendants

4) spotted

(22) tremor


1) trembling

2) mismanage

3)

4) swelling out in waves

(23) peripheral


1) person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected)

2) cry out suddenly

3) scarcity

4) of a periphery

(24) impuissance


1) pronounce indistinctly

2) egotistic

3) powerlessness

4) decree

(25) infernal


1) pertaining to hell

2) agreeable

3) soft food made by boiling oatmeal

4) weakness of mind