VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 67

(1) lucrative


1) fairness

2) fashionable

3) lazy

4) profitable

(2) defunct


1) successful

2) put under a spell(condition caused by magical power)

3) dead

4) immature

(3) agape


1) minor fight

2) compensation (for loss or wrong)

3) openmouthed

4) timely

(4) arid


1) (of land) dry

2) slip or slide

3) understood (without actually being expressed)

4) stubborn

(5) context


1) writings preceding and following the passage quoted

2) disease communicator

3) person who seeks to overturn the established government

4) foretell

(6) moratorium


1) legal delay of payment or action

2) small body revolving around a larger one

3) meddlesome

4) period of ideal or peak condition

(7) ethnology


1) approach

2) evasive

3) rejoicing

4) study of humankind

(8) nemesis


1) shine with a flickering light

2) lash

3) cause

4) someone seeking revenge

(9) cringe


1) shrink back as if in fear

2) abundant

3) person designated to execute the terms of a will

4) disrepute

(10) congruence


1) correspondence of parts

2) bravery

3) jaunty

4) mortuary

(11) abysmal


1) peaceful

2) turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.)

3) protruding part

4) bottomless

(12) ciliated


1) mob

2) life after death

3) fall apart into tangles

4) having minute hairs

(13) retract


1) make valid

2) lower

3) great joy and delight

4) withdraw

(14) gape


1) nimbleness

2) small surgical tool for making incisions

3) open widely

4) one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather)

(15) knead


1) clowning

2) deceptive

3) mix

4) complain (in a sad voice)

(16) hue_and_cry


1) outcry

2) monarch

3) sad and lonely

4) opposite

(17) affirmation


1) extraordinary ability

2) wave around (a weapon)

3) set free

4) positive assertion

(18) rebuttal


1) successful

2) judgment that someone is guilty of a crime

3) refutation

4) predecessor

(19) iconoclastic


1) (of writing) flowing

2) free

3) attacking cherished traditions

4) stinginess

(20) sensuous


1) ill will

2) giving pleasure to the senses

3) language used by special group

4) spoil the appearance of

(21) acclimate


1) mental disorder marked by confusion

2) adjust to climate or environment

3) rush wildly

4) guardianship

(22) doctrine


1) having womanly traits

2) huge creature

3) teachings in general

4) scatter

(23) shudder


1) having a very fine bore

2) shake uncontrollably

3) attractive

4) slightly sour (in taste or manner)

(24) irrelevant


1) favoring success

2) read or glance through quickly

3) rude, insensitive person

4) not applicable

(25) injurious


1) apart

2) comic

3) aqueduct

4) harmful