VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 112

(1) wrinkle


1) soothing or softening remedy (for the skin)

2) bored with pleasure or dissipation

3) one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality

4) small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth)

(2) domicile


1) home

2) rebound

3) narrow opening in a large mass

4) deliverance from a charge

(3) preclude


1) having a sharp biting taste

2) total

3) uncertain

4) make impossible

(4) latch


1) send to a person or place for sale

2) fastening or lock consisting of a movable bar that fits into a notch

3) (of weather) warm and damp

4) growing or spreading uncontrollably

(5) staccato


1) annoyance and disappointment

2) small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth)

3) unprejudiced

4) played in an abrupt manner

(6) fitful


1) spasmodic

2) revive

3) command

4) minor fight

(7) febrile


1) feverish

2) written command issued by a court (telling someone to do or not to do something)

3) mismanage

4) sociable

(8) weird


1) confuse

2) senility

3) dose (of liquids)

4) eerie

(9) skim


1) file of documents on a subject or person

2) study of prehistoric life or fossils

3) read or glance through quickly

4) highly excited

(10) relegate


1) having no motion

2) egg-shaped

3) refer indirectly

4) put into a lower or worse place

(11) penitent


1) suffering

2) catch sight of (something distant)

3) repentant

4) sleep throughout the winter

(12) medium


1) carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood

2) temporary stay

3) please intensely

4) element that is a creature's natural environment

(13) corrosive


1) army unit made up of four or more companies

2) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law

3) resembling a horse

4) eating away by chemicals or disease

(14) burlesque


1) punishment

2) give an imitation that ridicules

3) inflated

4) deadly

(15) conduit


1) roll in mud

2) tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid

3) aqueduct

4) assumption

(16) beneficiary


1) unutterable

2) careless

3) clear from blame or guilt

4) person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will

(17) hydrophobia


1) come between

2) small (often rural) community whose members share work and income

3) back country

4) fear of water

(18) aggrandize


1) direct quick route

2) make greater

3) outward demonstration

4) increase

(19) corrugated


1) wrinkled

2) cheater

3) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words

4) confused uproar

(20) banal


1) hackneyed

2) rider on horseback

3) suggestive of something (in the past)

4) one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality

(21) subaltern


1) subordinate

2) put forth for consideration or analysis

3) wandering (esp. in search of adventure)

4) brief and to the point

(22) potion


1) warn or speak to with gentle disapproval

2) dose (of liquids)

3) praising

4) lacking in spirit

(23) tyro


1) compensation (for loss or wrong)

2) beginner

3) related to population balance

4) not able to be erased

(24) spoof


1) violent

2) meanly stingy

3) dwell

4) parody

(25) buoyant


1) able to float

2) foretell

3) in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord

4) make use of, sometimes unjustly