VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 126

(1) fervor


1) glowing ardor

2) suggested or implied meaning of an expression

3) pleasant

4) not essential

(2) forfeit


1) something surrendered as punishment for a crime or breach of contract

2) damaged

3) commence

4) attractive

(3) reverend


1) sum

2) make or become confused

3) study of word parts

4) deserving reverence

(4) lackadaisical


1) lacking interest or effort

2) fantastic

3) theatrical

4) informal discussion

(5) checkered(chequ


1) contradict

2) ered) marked by great changes in fortune

3) turn away from (a principle, norm)

4) ars) ancestors

(6) purse


1) pucker

2) decisive

3) atrocious

4) having great volume (as of a garment or container)

(7) draught


1) having a pale or sickly color

2) current of air (through a room or to a fire)

3) druggist

4) place into a case

(8) imponderable


1) lover of luxury

2) manly

3) weightless

4) secret

(9) culvert


1) person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment

2) give shape to

3) artificial channel for water

4) wordy

(10) throng


1) swamp gas

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

3) furthest behind

4) crowd (of people or things)

(11) deflect


1) state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age

2) turn aside

3) design composed of one or more initials of a name

4) pretense (of strength)

(12) fake


1) implied comparison

2) not genuine

3) quarrelsome

4) complete

(13) omnipresent


1) the act of anointing with oil

2) foul-smelling

3) universally present

4) binding

(14) viable


1) gigantic

2) capable of maintaining life

3) act of lying in wait to attack by surprise

4) ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living

(15) rarefied


1) make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying)

2) having many talents

3) made less dense (of a gas)

4) crowd (of people or things)

(16) whimsy


1) conspicuous

2) whim

3) young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family)

4) bantering

(17) expository


1) conspicuous

2) calmness

3) steep

4) explanatory

(18) raucous


1) provide or use scantily

2) of a prophet or prophecy

3) (of voice) harsh and unpleasant

4) draftee

(19) censor


1) hot sweet dish

2) (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census)

3) active strength

4) walking at an easy unhurried pace

(20) poultice


1) obligated

2) pleasantly fat

3) obedient

4) soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body

(21) antiseptic


1) substance that prevents infection in a wound

2) having great weight

3) vehicle

4) courage

(22) debunk


1) calm

2) apparatus used to maintain balance, ascertain direction, etc.

3) expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.

4) harmonious

(23) subversive


1) inform

2) tending to overthrow or ruin

3) irritable

4) increase

(24) sallow


1) (of the skin) yellowish and unhealthy-looking

2) harmonious

3) quibble

4) abnormal

(25) conformity


1) punishing

2) harmony

3) basically different

4) person or thing excess of what is necessary