VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 164

(1) discerning


1) animal, plant, or natural object serving as a symbol of a clan or family

2) give up (a position, right, or claim)

3) mentally quick and observant

4) attractive

(2) concoct


1) cut to pieces with ax or sword

2) elevation to godhood

3) hereditary nobility

4) prepare by mixing or combining

(3) reparable


1) one that has been excluded from a society

2) capable of being repaired

3) hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food

4) punishment

(4) recuperate


1) admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote)

2) recover

3) official or legal permission

4) privilege

(5) abhor


1) bend the knee as in worship

2) admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote)

3) causing sadness, compassion, pity

4) detest

(6) complicity


1) participation

2) renovate

3) instruct

4) active strength

(7) discriminate


1) make thin

2) mental or bodily powers

3) distinguish

4) lack of premeditation

(8) reprehensible


1) (of a place) dilapidated

2) life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history

3) deserving blame

4) run-down

(9) bantering


1) trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense

2) joking talk

3) swayed by sentiment

4) pertaining to a bishop or pope

(10) lace


1) superfluous

2) refer indirectly

3) stout

4) cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe)

(11) dissolution


1) disintegration

2) morose

3) poor verse

4) inborn

(12) pluck


1) having absolute unchecked power

2) remove or get rid of something or someone unwanted

3) courage

4) turn over

(13) satirical


1) legal official of high rank

2) renovate

3) using satire

4) older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman

(14) impropriety


1) tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.

2) improperness

3) cold or cheerless

4) disown

(15) mock


1) stubborn

2) (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored

3) ridicule

4) temporary invasion

(16) virtue


1) substance that dissolves another

2) stamp out(put an end to)

3) play or frolic boisterously

4) goodness

(17) blemish


1) luxuriate

2) unmanageable

3) mar

4) indignation

(18) personify


1) excessive or uncontrollable excitement

2) unsafe

3) underlying character of a culture, group, etc.

4) represent (an inanimate object) as a person

(19) decrepitude


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

2) easily burned

3) depart secretly and hide

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

(20) clangor


1) loud resounding noise

2) thing that completes another

3) sad

4) (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly

(21) cosmic


1) lure

2) in love

3) pertaining to the universe

4) join together end to end to make one continuous length

(22) cadaver


1) temporary moderation (of disease symptoms)

2) complain

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

4) corpse

(23) rank


1) offensive in odor or flavor

2) of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal

3) (of an animal) not domestic

4) width

(24) righteous


1) ered) marked by great changes in fortune

2) weakness of mind

3) stray or fall behind (a main group)

4) morally upright

(25) depredation


1) government under a single ruler

2) the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events

3) rider on horseback

4) plundering