VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 115

(1) matrimony


1) state of being married

2) quick in movement

3) clergyman attached to a chapel

4) deep dish for serving soup

(2) tact


1) present but not yet noticeable or active

2) crafty

3) skill or sensitivity in dealing with people without causing offence

4) me) gay

(3) relevant


1) wrinkle

2) not subject to a duty or obligation

3) (of costs or demands) excessive

4) having importance

(4) paleontology


1) handle used to move boat's rudder (to steer)

2) study of prehistoric life or fossils

3) tell in confidence (to a person one trusts)

4) harmony

(5) irreconcilable


1) impossible to reconcile

2) a covered passageway usually lined with shops

3) slight degree of color

4) messenger

(6) supernumerary


1) totally clear

2) person or thing excess of what is necessary

3) arise from

4) sign or warning (of coming danger)

(7) shear


1) remove (fleece or hair) by cutting

2) immature

3) artistic

4) pleasant in taste

(8) petrify


1) rapture

2) interfering

3) throw lightly

4) turn to stone

(9) lavish


1) pierce with holes

2) liberal

3) confuse thoroughly

4) bugbear

(10) grunt


1) utter a deep guttural sound (as a pig does)

2) dead

3) properly made and complete

4) very cautious

(11) pied


1) piebald

2) money

3) make (a bill) into law

4) lifeless

(12) recreant


1) mental calmness

2) blessing

3) unharmed

4) disloyal

(13) forebears(forbe


1) renounce

2) servile flatterer

3) hermit

4) ars) ancestors

(14) bloated


1) (unpleasantly) swollen or puffed as with water or air

2) sharply painful to the body or mind

3) incapable of being pacified

4) kill from lack of air

(15) pithy


1) movable

2) bodily (rather than spiritual)

3) ancestor

4) concise and meaningful

(16) unkempt


1) changing its habitat

2) disheveled

3) increase

4) remove (forcibly)

(17) sully


1) motherly

2) defile

3) mercy killing

4) system of religious or ethical belief

(18) admonish


1) warn or speak to with gentle disapproval

2) disease communicator

3) quantity of motion of a moving body

4) long life

(19) acidulous


1) hairy

2) take possession of (often for public use and without payment)

3) slightly sour (in taste or manner)

4) attractive

(20) regicide


1) person of high rank or position

2) generous

3) official periodical publication

4) murder of a king or queen

(21) shade


1) full of learning

2) made less dense (of a gas)

3) slight difference in degree

4) similarity

(22) anoint


1) insightful

2) walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement

3) consecrate

4) long wave of water that moves continuously without breaking

(23) diadem


1) very cautious

2) crown

3) (of a position, esp. in an argument) indefensible

4) loyalty

(24) definitive


1) most reliable

2) waver

3) of a periphery

4) skin of an animal

(25) intrepid


1) present falsely

2) coloring matter (usually powder to be mixed with water or oil)

3) posion

4) fearless