VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 130

(1) homage


1) feeling of sickness and desire to vomit

2) reflection

3) honor

4) shrink

(2) balm


1) abundance

2) done with speed

3) something that relieves pain

4) justification

(3) prolong


1) lengthen

2) muscular

3) place of spiritual expiation

4) daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping)

(4) affable


1) confuse

2) easily approachable

3) make perpetual

4) drive or force forward (by causing impulses)

(5) recital


1) act of reciting publicly

2) disclaim or disavow

3) copy

4) unchangeable

(6) temporal


1) (of a story) widely believed but untrue

2) platitude

3) of time

4) blow in heavy gusts

(7) oatmeal


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

2) crushed oats used for making porridge

3) invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation)

4) put in order

(8) indentation


1) providing for future needs

2) one that achieves unexpected success

3) notch

4) take (one's attention) off something

(9) legato


1) shrink

2) small body revolving around a larger one

3) confuse

4) (of music) played smoothly

(10) parley


1) father

2) conference (between opponents)

3) spacious and comfortable

4) state with less truth than seems warranted by the facts

(11) luscious


1) pertaining to memory

2) invigorate

3) atrocious

4) pleasing to taste or smell

(12) overblown


1) inflated

2) give a slight degree of a color or quality to

3) arrangement of masts and sails

4) vex

(13) terrestrial


1) pass safely through (a storm or difficult period)

2) done secretly

3) on or relating to the earth

4) chatter rapidly or unintelligibly

(14) artisan


1) selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work

2) harmful

3) army unit made up of four or more companies

4) a manually skilled worker

(15) hatch


1) conspicuous

2) deck opening

3) relating to cooking or kitchen

4) serious and sedate

(16) painstaking


1) taking pains

2) voracious

3) fitness

4) walk lamely

(17) permeable


1) that can be permeated

2) fierce

3) easily approachable

4) outward decorations

(18) diatribe


1) intermediate

2) bitter scolding or denunciation

3) encode

4) pointed projecting part

(19) natal


1) struggle and thrash about

2) connected with birth

3) quantity of motion of a moving body

4) earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

(20) grim


1) causing great fear

2) projection

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

4) uncouple

(21) postulate


1) decide

2) miser

3) self-evident truth

4) spot

(22) culprit


1) one guilty of a crime

2) authoritative

3) substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness

4) make oneself tidy in appearance

(23) myriad


1) very large number

2) fastening or lock consisting of a movable bar that fits into a notch

3) imitate or mimic (a person's behavior or manner)

4) unfortunate accident

(24) rehabilitate


1) restore to proper condition (health or useful life)

2) (sitting or standing) straight up

3) assuage or satisfy (thrust)

4) having minute hairs

(25) ambience


1) dissenting (with an opinion, a group, or a government)

2) environment

3) esoteric

4) lack of proportion (between the parts)