VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 4

(1) tenacity


1) final

2) firmness

3) using satire

4) self-evident truth requiring no proof

(2) miasma


1) sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)

2) a manually skilled worker

3) run away secretly with the intention of getting married

4) swamp gas

(3) contempt


1) scorn

2) pointed tool used for piercing

3) cook by direct heat

4) send out of the country

(4) plumage


1) feathers of a bird

2) opinion contrary to popular belief

3) path of the sun and the planets

4) one who studies the skin and its diseases

(5) deploy


1) having or causing lustful desires and thoughts

2) lying below

3) spread out (troops) in an extended though shallow battle line

4) unaccustomed

(6) cognitive


1) conceal in the palm of the hand

2) connection

3) having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes

4) long wave of water that moves continuously without breaking

(7) incisive


1) teacher of philosophy

2) carrion-eating birds

3) relating to paradise

4) (appreciatively) cutting

(8) phobia


1) morbid fear

2) pertaining to ships or navigation

3) unwillingness

4) agreement

(9) plumb


1) travel about selling (wares)

2) mismanage

3) accuse of or implicate in a crime

4) exactly vertical

(10) finale


1) intention

2) conclusion

3) damnation

4) ease pain (without curing)

(11) prescience


1) treat gently

2) ability to foretell the future

3) people of standing(rank or position)

4) sharp-cornered

(12) aloft


1) pretending to be virtuous

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

3) upward

4) chief

(13) loath


1) parchment or piece of writing material used for second time after original writing has been erased

2) reluctant

3) loud resounding noise

4) ponder at length

(14) requiem


1) cock

2) make use of, sometimes unjustly

3) mass for the dead

4) abundance

(15) crinkle


1) persuade

2) wrinkle

3) something apparently contradictory in nature (that may nonetheless be true)

4) purposely continuing to do something wrong

(16) proverb


1) pertaining to induction or proceeding from the specific to the general

2) of the surface

3) candid

4) adage

(17) refute


1) wrinkled

2) dangerous

3) disprove

4) forerunner

(18) rivet


1) metal pin used for fastening metal plates together

2) defamation

3) flexible

4) list of works of music, drama, etc., a performer is prepared to present

(19) drivel


1) engrossed

2) small boat (often ship's boat)

3) nonsense

4) spread randomly

(20) elastic


1) without concern or care

2) able to spring back into shape

3) steadfast

4) depravity

(21) escapade


1) weightless

2) prank

3) full of self-admiration

4) someone seeking revenge

(22) sodden


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

2) frustrate

3) thoroughly soaked

4) diligent

(23) precipitous


1) offensive

2) common

3) bear fruit

4) steep

(24) onslaught


1) settle accounts

2) crevice

3) inflated

4) vicious assault

(25) prodigal


1) drowsy

2) wasteful

3) leave to someone by means of a will

4) wriggle