VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 99

(1) shun


1) turn aside

2) keep away from

3) wind or turn in its course

4) gentle breeze

(2) frisk


1) ecological community together with its environment

2) move about playfully

3) something contrived

4) dejected

(3) rare


1) flood

2) disconcert

3) (of air) thin in density

4) incapable of injury

(4) concordat


1) one who has equal standing with another

2) make amends for (a sin)

3) inclined to

4) formal agreement

(5) physiognomy


1) call and bring into use (a right or law)

2) gain time as by postponing an action

3) promoting a particular point of view

4) face (as showing the character and the mind)

(6) emasculate


1) sparkle

2) rush wildly

3) weaken

4) prophetic

(7) audit


1) contending

2) tooth projecting from a wheel

3) examination of accounts of a business

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

(8) inconsequential


1) condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles

2) careful no to cause offence

3) insignificant

4) surround

(9) disquietude


1) expressing sorrow

2) rebellion

3) not able to be erased

4) uneasiness

(10) antithesis


1) acquit

2) rider on horseback

3) confused uproar

4) contrast

(11) wheedle


1) real being

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

3) deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery

4) clever in deceiving

(12) comprehend


1) suffering

2) sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals

3) include

4) hollow

(13) astute


1) one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously)

2) retired or disqualified because of age

3) flexible

4) wise

(14) stickler


1) burn unsteadily or fitfully

2) perfectionist

3) forbiddingly stern

4) not applicable

(15) malingerer


1) reveal

2) motion

3) quick clever reply

4) one who feigns illness to escape duty

(16) tinge


1) taking pains

2) give a slight degree of a color or quality to

3) stop motion

4) complicated situation (as in a play)

(17) posture


1) moving slowly

2) attach

3) assume an affected pose

4) condescend

(18) matin\'ee(matin


1) deserve

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

3) ee) dramatic or musical performance given in the afternoon

4) state confidently

(19) archetype


1) courting favor by cringing and flattering

2) pertaining to land or its cultivation

3) perceptiveness

4) prototype

(20) plagiarize


1) force or push out

2) journey

3) steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own

4) obligatory

(21) facilitate


1) disobedient or resisting authority even after being punished

2) help bring about

3) repeat

4) be excessively fond of

(22) indecision


1) having a backbone or spinal column

2) of a member of the cat family

3) oversimplified

4) irresolution

(23) inflated


1) animal-biting fly

2) exaggerated

3) shrill, trumpetlike sound

4) unattractive

(24) aureole


1) sun's corona

2) small stream

3) venomous spider

4) tunnels in which rabbits live

(25) figurative


1) suffering from a disease

2) not literal but metaphorical

3) having only one color

4) mixture as of metals