VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 178

(1) dumbfound(dumfo


1) und) astonish (making dumb)

2) requiring sitting

3) tending toward the center

4) (of a spirit) visit (a place)

(2) alms


1) dictionary

2) decree or command

3) fragments (esp. from a destroyed building)

4) money or goods given to the poor

(3) responsiveness


1) writ(written command issued by a court) summoning a witness to appear in court

2) trip and almost fall

3) state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc.

4) dissimilar

(4) prattle


1) kill from lack of air

2) talk idly

3) major classification, second to kingdom, of plants and animals

4) give

(5) run-down


1) ability

2) certainty

3) (of a place) dilapidated

4) journey

(6) knotty


1) highly pretentious or inflated

2) intricate

3) something fit to be eaten

4) groom oneself with care

(7) bristling


1) become popular with

2) condition of being squalid

3) rising like bristles

4) inclined to cruelty

(8) affliction


1) questioner (especially harsh)

2) state of distress

3) family descent

4) reserved or aloof

(9) inculcate


1) foul-smelling

2) teach (ideas or principles)

3) travel about selling (wares)

4) central or vital part

(10) synthetic


1) obligatory

2) obligated

3) beginning

4) not natural

(11) jocular


1) disease communicator

2) avoid (responsibility, work, etc.)

3) said or done in jest or playfully

4) one who builds or works with stone or brick

(12) quizzical


1) curious

2) process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance

3) hide

4) flood

(13) curmudgeon


1) children

2) churlish, miserly individual

3) related to telling a story

4) remove (fleece or hair) by cutting

(14) replete


1) harmful

2) announce

3) fully filled

4) unworthy

(15) slavish


1) permanent

2) proper (in behavior, conduct, or appearance)

3) of or like a slave

4) joining

(16) judicious


1) narrow opening in a large mass

2) subside or moderate

3) sound on judgment

4) make or become dull or discolored

(17) impeach


1) charge (a public official) with crime in office

2) of glass

3) nearness

4) and forwards

(18) doze


1) able to be touched

2) risk, particularly of being exposed to disease or to the elements

3) thin surface layer (of good quality wood, glued to a base of inferior material)

4) sleep lightly

(19) orifice


1) pirate or plunderer who makes war in order to grow rich

2) hostile invasion

3) mouthlike opening

4) grow rapidly (in numbers)

(20) unison


1) unity of pitch (in musical performance)

2) untidy (of hair or clothing)

3) pertinent

4) beak(bill)

(21) strident


1) (of likings and interests) universal

2) purposely continuing to do something wrong

3) severity

4) loud and harsh

(22) prime


1) an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)

2) period of ideal or peak condition

3) said or done in jest or playfully

4) noisy quarrel

(23) disgorge


1) avaricious

2) power to produce desired effect

3) surrender something (stolen)

4) censure

(24) habitat


1) come to one as a gain

2) natural home of a plant or animal

3) crystal clear

4) state of being undecided

(25) prehensile


1) (of costs or demands) excessive

2) beauty

3) capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around)

4) making a harsh noise