VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 102

(1) static


1) regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times

2) one that achieves unexpected success

3) skin disease (esp. of domestic animals) marked by loss of hair

4) having no motion

(2) volley


1) pious

2) reckless, desperate outlaw

3) simultaneous discharge of a number of shots

4) rub out

(3) rebuke


1) scold harshly

2) lottery

3) person who looks on the bright side

4) surround tightly so that movement is impossible

(4) appall


1) violent scoundrel

2) dismay

3) confused uproar

4) artificial

(5) migratory


1) lament

2) act of providing

3) pour off gently (wine or liquid)

4) wandering

(6) brand


1) strike forcefully

2) reckon

3) forcible restraint, especially unlawfully

4) trademark

(7) subsidy


1) repair or make whole by using a metal alloy

2) direct financial aid by government, etc.

3) state of being immovable

4) physically strong

(8) whine


1) pierce with a lance

2) one who is zealous

3) group of persons joined in political intrigue

4) complain (in a sad voice)

(9) fancied


1) imagined

2) lawsuit

3) permanent

4) gloomy

(10) improvise


1) knickknack

2) compose on the spur of the moment

3) weaken

4) surviving remnant (from an extinct culture)

(11) hortatory


1) upstart

2) encouraging

3) relating to the back of an animal

4) bugbear

(12) vernal


1) width

2) return to a former state (esp. after improvement)

3) pertaining to spring

4) seize

(13) timidity


1) wakefulness

2) lack of self-confidence or courage

3) causing insensitivity to pain

4) excessive indulgence of one's own desire

(14) refractory


1) able to be dissolved in a liquid

2) power of endurance

3) punish by placing in a wooden frame or pillory

4) unmanageable

(15) bleak


1) cold or cheerless

2) offer or kill as a sacrifice (by fire)

3) ) any gain above stipulated salary

4) every two years

(16) chalice


1) person with an insane desire to set things on fire

2) goblet

3) playful remark or act

4) adequate

(17) overweening


1) small stream

2) fallen fruit

3) causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.

4) arrogant

(18) gall


1) arrest (a criminal)

2) divided into classes

3) agreeable

4) annoy

(19) wrath


1) anger

2) element that is a creature's natural environment

3) prepare by mixing or combining

4) damp

(20) nonchalance


1) cut or knock down (a tree or a person)

2) steep

3) study of prehistoric life or fossils

4) indifference

(21) extrovert


1) large in quantity

2) loud continous noise

3) manner of walking or running

4) person interested mostly in external objects and actions

(22) mime


1) wandering

2) oppression

3) pantomime(act without dialogue)

4) looking within oneself

(23) enervate


1) weaken

2) soothe an angry person

3) take pleasure in great comfort

4) (of the tide) recede

(24) fashion


1) give shape to

2) substitute

3) portray

4) untidy

(25) feline


1) active enmity

2) of a member of the cat family

3) shaky

4) detestable