VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 110

(1) swarthy


1) restore to proper condition (health or useful life)

2) drink with zest

3) (of a skin or complexion) dark

4) pretentiousness

(2) missive


1) facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust, etc

2) countercharges

3) state strongly or positively

4) letter

(3) certitude


1) certainty

2) watchful

3) breathing

4) frugality

(4) inerrancy


1) stroll(go for a leisurely walk) slowly

2) abnormal

3) infallibility

4) modest

(5) negligence


1) female warrior

2) unsatisfied

3) being in debt

4) neglect

(6) trough


1) mania for doing grandiose things

2) long narrow container for feeding farm animals

3) good fortune and financial success

4) induced sleeping state

(7) culpable


1) deserving blame

2) transient

3) good fortune and financial success

4) fragments (esp. from a destroyed building)

(8) crass


1) lead away from proper conduct

2) condemn

3) very unrefined

4) hard but easily broken

(9) exude


1) infection (by contact)

2) party

3) throw into confusion

4) flow out slowly

(10) travesty


1) morose

2) idealistic but impractical

3) copy or example of something that completely misrepresents the true nature of the real thing

4) pithy

(11) haunt


1) confuse

2) ty) quality of being unsophisticated

3) (of a spirit) visit (a place)

4) introductory statement

(12) integral


1) detached plant shoot used in grafting

2) excess

3) complete

4) flow out slowly

(13) expenditure


1) conventions

2) form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly

3) inner excitement or exuberance

4) payment or expense

(14) nicety


1) ponder at length

2) division of a long poem

3) precision

4) quality of being provident

(15) wage


1) highly pretentious or inflated

2) begin and continue (a war)

3) state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved

4) wishing evil

(16) construe


1) explain

2) club

3) extreme confusion

4) absurd

(17) hallowed


1) science of sound

2) distinct

3) blessed

4) denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius)

(18) warrant


1) of or like an uncle

2) wanderer (without a permanent home)

3) leftover food

4) justification

(19) odyssey


1) long, eventful, adventurous journey

2) erase

3) not identical on both sides of a dividing central line

4) winding

(20) peerless


1) drug that relieves pain or trouble

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

3) lacking in flavor

4) having no equal

(21) contentious


1) slander

2) joking talk

3) not fully worked out or developed

4) quarrelsome

(22) consistency


1) prohibit

2) unnatural and forced

3) absence of contradictions

4) trader

(23) fortitude


1) bravery

2) move back suddenly

3) superintendent

4) token of disgrace

(24) nadir


1) sociable

2) lowest point

3) ridicule

4) oily

(25) tome


1) persuade not to do

2) large volume

3) trace

4) restrain