VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 86

(1) perjury


1) approach and speak first to a person

2) something hinted at or suggested

3) false testimony while under oath

4) conducive to good health

(2) incendiary


1) abandon

2) twisting force

3) arsonist

4) thoroughly soaked

(3) perpetrate


1) relating to stars

2) give protection (by giving food and shelter)

3) mental disorder

4) commit an offense

(4) moribund


1) possessing good health

2) support militantly

3) dying

4) wring from

(5) fiat


1) full of learning

2) command

3) delay (in development)

4) blessing

(6) propitiate


1) hateful

2) distinct

3) appease

4) conspicuous

(7) mottled


1) blotched in coloring

2) talkative boaster

3) feverish

4) strangle

(8) bitter


1) unpleasantly dark

2) having a sharp biting taste

3) having a backbone or spinal column

4) coloring matter (usually powder to be mixed with water or oil)

(9) accelerate


1) (of writing) flowing

2) move faster

3) de) front or face (of building)

4) wandering away from the subject

(10) enact


1) lurch

2) venture

3) make (a bill) into law

4) cause

(11) gambol


1) romp

2) make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship)

3) felt in one's inner organs

4) flexible

(12) idle


1) open to view

2) home of a hermit

3) not working

4) metal block used for shaping metal or plastic

(13) minutiae


1) healthful

2) tight

3) petty or trivial details

4) taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax)

(14) panegyric


1) open widely

2) process of nourishing or being nourished

3) rotate swiftly

4) formal praise

(15) vouchsafe


1) loyalty

2) approve

3) highly pretentious or inflated

4) grant condescendingly

(16) dislodge


1) poor

2) remove (forcibly)

3) cause to sprout

4) assist usually in doing something wrong

(17) obfuscate


1) be next to

2) worship of idols

3) first in rank or importance

4) confuse

(18) scholarly


1) spur

2) lifeless

3) defensive mound of earth

4) full of learning

(19) bountiful


1)

2) generous

3) mutual relationship

4) unreasonable or capricious

(20) masquerade


1) swollen

2) cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied

3) wear a mask or disguise

4) harmonious

(21) vertex


1) monkeylike

2) pretense (of strength)

3) summit

4) so small, trifling, or unimportant as to be easily disregarded

(22) economy


1) rustic

2) something contrived

3) efficiency or conciseness in using something

4) disaster

(23) yoke


1) join together

2) accidental

3) very bad or disagreeable

4) quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)

(24) homily


1) docile

2) sermon

3) lose a small piece from the surface or edge

4) state of depression or melancholy

(25) zephyr


1) gentle breeze

2) take the place of unfairly

3) clamorous

4) arrogance