VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 148

(1) brackish


1) poisonous snake

2) taking pains

3) somewhat saline

4) act of finding the total

(2) implicate


1) claw of bird

2) refutation

3) incriminate

4) drug that relieves pain or trouble

(3) manacle


1) restrain

2) abstain from

3) fleshly

4) pertaining to tailors or tailoring

(4) brave


1) artistic

2) face courageously

3) breeder or dealer of animals

4) sorrowful

(5) abject


1) rude, insensitive person

2) satiate

3) (of a condition) wretched

4) horrible

(6) plight


1) crafty

2) complete

3) reverse the order or position of

4) difficult condition

(7) amnesia


1) loss of memory

2) imperceptible(not easily understood)

3) agreement

4) change in direction

(8) scurrilous


1) ornament richly (a shield or flag)

2) abusive

3) turn away from (a principle, norm)

4) surround with armed forces

(9) hybrid


1) sharpen (a tool)

2) all-knowing

3) tear made by rending

4) mongrel

(10) rubric


1) complete

2) businessperson (who assumes the risk of a business venture)

3) title or heading (in red print)

4) disagree

(11) anchor


1) mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer

2) move furtively and secretly

3) underwater explosive apparatus

4) secure or fasten firmly

(12) natty


1) put or force in without being asked

2) neatly or smartly dressed

3) move with body close to the ground

4) destroy completely

(13) semblance


1) outward appearance

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

3) observable facts

4) pacify or soothe

(14) supplicant


1) not being a person

2) one who supplicates

3) kingdom

4) spasmodic

(15) ragamuffin


1) dirty child in torn clothes

2) waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building

3) bring upon oneself

4) spread through or over (with a color or liquid)

(16) unruly


1) lying

2) place over something else

3) rustic

4) disobedient

(17) glimmer


1) extremely poor

2) opposite

3) shine erratically

4) throb

(18) withstand


1) steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own

2) sour

3) stand up against

4) mysterious

(19) mendacious


1) lying

2) rushing stream

3) less intense

4) with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distruct)

(20) cataract


1) administrative division of a city

2) greed (for wealth)

3) great waterfall

4) slow gallop

(21) beleaguer


1) l (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life

2) decorate with needlework

3) combative

4) besiege or attack (with an army)

(22) Bohemian


1) autopsy

2) unconventional (in an artistic way)

3) admit

4) imprison

(23) veto


1) suave

2) vested power to reject a bill

3) fertility

4) isolation

(24) autopsy


1) examination of a dead body

2) wet thoroughly

3) censure

4) churlish, miserly individual

(25) solicit


1) harm someone's reputation

2) entreat

3) having only one color

4) seize