VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 39

(1) resort


1) turn to for help

2) pertaining to marriage

3) study industriously

4) quarrel

(2) memorial


1) marked by vulgar lewd humor

2) something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to honor the memory of a person or event

3) slanderous remark

4) acquire

(3) clime


1) hackneyed

2) collection of wild animals on exhibition

3) decorate with needlework

4) climate

(4) coup


1) highly successful action or sudden attack

2) crushed oats used for making porridge

3) sore place appearing on the skin inside or outside the body

4) give up something (with reluctance)

(5) abscond


1) make (a liquid) less concentrated

2) depart secretly and hide

3) uncorrectable

4) short simple story teaching a moral

(6) sanguine


1) traditional

2) optimistic

3) restraint

4) make unconscious or numb as by a blow

(7) clientele


1) question severely

2) body of customers

3) slight degree of color

4) being only one

(8) delve


1) decrease in size or strength (after being full)

2) discerning

3) dig

4) spur

(9) minuscule(minis


1) cule) extremely small

2) bear one's self

3) lament

4) wild

(10) morgue


1) mortuary

2) first rough form

3) without definite purpose, plan, or aim

4) expressing sorrow

(11) compute


1) assumption

2) move or throw suddenly and quickly

3) reckon

4) direct vote by all the people

(12) skittish


1) physician specializing in children's diseases

2) tawny or grayish with streaks or spots (of animals)

3) inconstant

4) very bad or disagreeable

(13) chafe


1) remedy to counteract a poison or disease

2) warm by rubbing

3) animal or plant living on another

4) psychic and emotional energy or urges behind human activity

(14) profane


1) violate

2) inclined to cruelty

3) weird

4) slow gallop

(15) axiom


1) self-evident truth requiring no proof

2) make greater

3) face

4) relating to the art of debate

(16) calumny


1) deriving

2) malicious misrepresentation

3) people of standing(rank or position)

4) inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract

(17) unseemly


1) unbecoming

2) divide into parts

3) commotion of a great crowd

4) thick-skinned animal

(18) matrix


1) point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth

2) partial shadow (in an eclipse)

3) tending to include all

4) point of origin

(19) sonic


1) continue in existence

2) nearness (in space or relationship)

3) of sound or its speed in air

4) very cautious

(20) macabre


1) characteristic frame of mind

2) gruesome

3) estimate value of

4) postpone

(21) gloss


1) predict (according to present indications)

2) brief explanation note or translation of a difficult expression

3) false

4) explore with a probe or tools

(22) lunar


1) pertaining to the moon

2) move (a railway train) from one track to another

3) express evil satisfaction

4) attacking

(23) dirge


1) written symbols

2) funeral song

3) vested power to reject a bill

4) half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (resembling a goat), portrayed as wanton(unrestrained) and cunning

(24) rabid


1) staff officer assisting the commander

2) ordinary

3) of or suffering rabies

4) inactive

(25) iota


1) embezzle

2) very small quantity

3) blood feud (esp. between two families)

4) heavy substance used to add stability or weight