VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 79

(1) horde


1) brilliant

2) neat and trim (in appearance)

3) twisting force

4) crowd

(2) monetary


1) gully

2) something attached to but holding an inferior position

3) rebellion

4) pertaining to money

(3) palatable


1) disprove

2) agreeable

3) (of things and place) dirty and dull

4) unshakably calm

(4) jeopardize


1) endanger

2) purging or cleansing of any passage of the body

3) steering wheel of a ship

4) pertaining to speculative philosophy

(5) meager


1) scanty

2) moderate

3) fallen fruit

4) invulnerable

(6) pillage


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

2) large isolated system of stars, such as the Milky Way

3) nonsense

4) plunder

(7) bastion


1) not active

2) stronghold

3) full-bosomed

4) good fortune and financial success

(8) galleon


1) large three-masted sailing ship

2) (of someone old) eccentric

3) convincing

4) platitude

(9) platitude


1) suitable

2) essential

3) trite remark

4) outwit

(10) pterodactyl


1) word or signal (as in a play to prompt another actor's speech or entrance)

2) extinct flying reptile

3) drink in

4) enclosure for birds

(11) equestrian


1) invention

2) large in quantity

3) rider on horseback

4) oversensitive

(12) recite


1) ) any gain above stipulated salary

2) deserving reverence

3) repeat aloud (something learned)

4) (of people or animals) sturdy

(13) ubiquitous


1) bear one's self

2) shameless and noticeable

3) being everywhere

4) piece of burning wood

(14) indignation


1) spread throughout

2) wall painting

3) mental calmness

4) anger at an injustice

(15) disparity


1) undistinctive

2) throb

3) noticeable

4) difference

(16) sepulcher


1) narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land

2) tomb

3) use of force to get someone to object

4) honor the memory of

(17) mutilate


1) system of religious or ethical belief

2) brief flash of light

3) anger at an injustice

4) maim

(18) overthrow


1) nservatoire) school of the fine arts (especially music or drama)

2) elevation to godhood

3) topple

4) trader

(19) rhapsody


1) minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points

2) changeable (in affections or friendship)

3) excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling

4) marked by formality

(20) protrude


1) having great weight

2) stick out

3) small exclusive group of people

4) disparage

(21) hysteria


1) something taken for granted

2) excessive or uncontrollable excitement

3) desecrating

4) metal pin used for fastening metal plates together

(22) mischief


1) neigh like a horse

2) behavior (of children) causing trouble with no serious harm

3) prose or verse composition to be performed by actors

4) not applicable

(23) topography


1) physical features of a region (such as the shape and height)

2) bad-tempered complaint

3) inconstant

4) susceptible to wounds or attack

(24) hubris


1) arrogance

2) striking one object against another sharply

3) either of the correlated things

4) narrow opening in a large mass

(25) addiction


1) lacking proper seriousness

2) compulsive habitual need

3) reconciling

4) contemptible