VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 64

(1) fidelity


1) confirm

2) sheer

3) sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)

4) loyalty

(2) start


1) move suddenly or involuntarily

2) blacken

3) secret

4) trinket

(3) elusive


1) evasive

2) yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war)

3) generosity

4) swayed by sentiment

(4) uncouth


1) mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer

2) boorish

3) having a common center

4) brother or sister

(5) voodoo


1) religion practiced chiefly in Haiti

2) inattentive or unmindful

3) chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically)

4) compose on the spur of the moment

(6) audacious


1) beg

2) mechanism that imitates actions of humans

3) a place where bees are kept

4) daring

(7) despoil


1) plunder

2) extremely poor

3) lazy person

4) unnatural and forced

(8) suspend


1) (of a person or writing) digressing

2) a great quantity

3) lose a small piece from the surface or edge

4) cause to stop for a period

(9) bookish


1) spasmodic

2) similar

3) fond of books and reading

4) rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America

(10) proclivity


1) inclination

2) entangle

3) wild tumult(commotion)

4) damp

(11) papyrus


1) ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant

2) be violently disturbed

3) the smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance

4) small body revolving around a larger one

(12) ego


1) noisy confusion

2) room or space under the roof

3) one's opinion of oneself

4) lack of consistency or agreement as between facts

(13) betoken


1) (esp. of older people) vigorously active

2) bizzare

3) ee) dramatic or musical performance given in the afternoon

4) signify

(14) pastiche


1) stand up against

2) severe and adverse criticism

3) imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing

4) domestic

(15) coda


1) extreme poverty

2) assemble

3) concluding section of a musical or literary composition

4) superfluous

(16) subdue


1) (of water) not flowing (often bad-smelling)

2) malicious misrepresentation

3) free from an entanglement or difficulty

4) less intense

(17) incarnation


1) differing in some characteristics (from each other)

2) utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement

3) monumental tomb

4) act of assuming a human body and human nature

(18) pliant


1) deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery

2) flexible

3) person who does things too quickly without thinking

4) frustrate

(19) conscientious


1) in love

2) easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things

3) scrupulous

4) someone who wastes money

(20) authoritarian


1) release or discharge through a vent

2) promote or publicize (one's goods or service)

3) mix together in close association

4) subordinating the individual to the state

(21) vulpine


1) boisterous mirth(merriment

2) agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged

3) like a fox

4) pretense of ignorance of something wrong

(22) maroon


1) physician specializing in delivery(assisting in giving birth) of babies

2) violent whirlpool

3) lessening

4) leave helpless on a deserted island or coast

(23) glutton


1) make invalid

2) substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter

3) someone who eats too much

4) representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols

(24) culmination


1) sheer

2) highest point

3) selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work

4) shade of slight difference in meaning or color

(25) susceptible


1) occurring irregularly

2) impressionable

3) text of an opera or oratorio

4) physically strong