VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 120

(1) sedate


1) nervous or excited

2) composed (with no excitement)

3) not subject to a duty or obligation

4) color

(2) mute


1) place of refuge or shelter

2) nservatoire) school of the fine arts (especially music or drama)

3) silent

4) small body revolving around a larger one

(3) impunity


1) anger

2) freedom from punishment or harm

3) pertaining to the lungs

4) tired or uninterested by surfeit

(4) desiccate


1) insult to one's dignity

2) decorate

3) dry up

4) entangle

(5) salvage


1) sure of one's own righteousness

2) grow rapidly (in numbers)

3) rescue (goods or property) from loss

4) large wave of water

(6) pang


1) person who collects coins

2) sudden sharp feeling of pain

3) deserve

4) having only one color

(7) submissive


1) frenzy

2) willing to obey orders

3) satisfy (thirst)

4) enormous

(8) slight


1) point directly overhead in the sky

2) insult to one's dignity

3) maim

4) line (of waiting people or vehicles)

(9) lap


1) disturb greatly

2) separate

3) mutually agreed on

4) take in food or drink with one's tongue

(10) catastrophe


1) beat with a whip or flail

2) calamity

3) mutual relationship

4) science of sound

(11) dazzle


1) shaving of the head especially by person entering religious orders

2) copy

3) state of being numerous or multiple

4) make blind with a sudden intense light

(12) intellect


1) of substance

2) yield (to something overwhelming)

3) higher mental powers

4) stimulate or shock by an electric current

(13) severity


1) related to monks or monasteries

2) kindly

3) harshness

4) state of violent agitation

(14) monotony


1) sameness leading to boredom

2) ideal place, state, or society

3) wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)

4) narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain

(15) chase


1) braid

2) v. ask or beg earnestly

3) representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols

4) ornament a metal surface by indenting

(16) anomaly


1) irritate

2) hypnotic state

3) irreverence

4) irregularity

(17) foment


1) slander

2) stir up

3) returning something (lost or stolen) to the rightful owner

4) sleep lightly

(18) compliant


1) breaking of contract or duty

2) chain

3) readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others

4) make return for

(19) congeal


1) assertion

2) freeze

3) life after death

4) enclose

(20) circumlocution


1) impose (a fine)

2) below the threshold of conscious perception

3) confuse

4) indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly)

(21) turgid


1) swollen

2) assume an affected pose

3) dig out of the ground

4) maker and seller of eyeglasses

(22) sophistry


1) diabolic

2) harmful

3) temporary stay

4) seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning

(23) symmetry


1) woman who rules a family or larger social group

2) arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained

3) swindle

4) religion practiced chiefly in Haiti

(24) transmute


1) undertaker

2) remaining

3) transform

4) (of people or animals) sturdy

(25) precinct


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

2) division of a city for election or police purposes

3) turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.)

4) act of reciting publicly