VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 114

(1) groove


1) disturb greatly

2) long narrow channel made in a surface to guide the movement of something

3) pollute

4) queer and amusing

(2) requite


1) demanding and leaving no choice

2) make return for

3) holding

4) omission of words from a text

(3) parquet


1) trinket

2) floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter

3) ancestry

4) lack of premeditation

(4) bedraggle


1) wet thoroughly

2) great mass of falling snow and ice

3) (of liquid) pour out in large quantities from a hole

4) in good condition

(5) ewe


1) place or condition of bliss

2) female sheep

3) list (of names)

4) skillful (in using mind or hand)

(6) exertion


1) good-fellowship

2) sharp-cornered

3) ornamental clasp

4) effort

(7) allege


1) ugly

2) unscrupulous

3) state without proof

4) low, guttural, menacing sound (as of a dog)

(8) tedium


1) diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers

2) chatter idly or foolishly

3) lending money at illegal high rates of interest

4) boredom

(9) metaphysical


1) pertaining to speculative philosophy

2) deportment

3) have a tendency

4) psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution

(10) glacial


1) binding

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

3) imitation

4) like a glacier

(11) stump


1) throw overboard (from a ship or plane)

2) base of a tree trunk left after the rest has been cut down

3) of a member of the cat family

4) inhabit in numbers large enough to be harmful

(12) reprobation


1) border

2) concise

3) scold strongly

4) severe disapproval

(13) pen


1) open widely

2) joking talk

3) fenced enclosure for animals

4) being everywhere

(14) expatriate


1) exile

2) kill (usually one out of ten or every tenth man)

3) of a sect

4) separate

(15) circumscribe


1) rise or fly high in the air

2) become worse in quality

3) limit

4) jaunty

(16) viscid


1) anger

2) adhesive

3) charming

4) whim

(17) novice


1) waste material thrown away (as bits of paper scattered untidily)

2) beginner

3) stipulation

4) lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life

(18) practicable


1) feasible

2) inner excitement or exuberance

3) happening at the same time

4) mechanism that imitates actions of humans

(19) ambulatory


1) remainder

2) small bit or fragment

3) able to walk

4) lessen in value

(20) decollete


1) (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline

2) shell or jewel carved in relief

3) terrible

4) dwell

(21) amenities


1) become less severe

2) pleasing to taste or smell

3) convenient features that helps to make life pleasant

4) (of a person) unable to express what one really feels

(22) seduce


1) unnoticeable

2) lead away from proper conduct

3) feeling of kinship

4) throw forcefully

(23) perturb


1) disturb greatly

2) pedestal

3) in name only

4) person interested mostly in external objects and actions

(24) reparation


1) pertaining to the lungs

2) approve formally

3) compensation (for loss or wrong)

4) pretentiousness

(25) compound


1) overflowing abundance

2) desecrating

3) steadiness of effort

4) combine