VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 153

(1) perfidious


1) every two years

2) excessive interest in one's self

3) treacherous

4) exclamation

(2) scanty


1) discomposed

2) dismay

3) meager

4) die or kill from lack of air

(3) hail


1) very high

2) make neat or tidy by clipping

3) frozen rain drop

4) evil schemes or plots

(4) exclaim


1) withdrawal

2) examination of a dead body

3) cry out suddenly

4) sleeping

(5) ogle


1) look at amorously

2) active strength

3) objectionable

4) not naive

(6) sleeper


1) large vehicle drawn by a horse over snow or ice

2) fair

3) confuse

4) one that achieves unexpected success

(7) perigee


1) point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth

2) shove

3) redden

4) trail of ship or other object through water

(8) sibylline


1) prophetic

2) ponder at length

3) medieval chemistry

4) soothe

(9) hypercritical


1) dissimilar

2) disagree

3) rebel

4) excessively exacting

(10) frail


1) weak

2) leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist)

3) related to population balance

4) exhibiting little interest or enthusiasm

(11) garbled


1) mixed up

2) put to rout

3) ill-humored

4) former occupant of a post

(12) eclectic


1) mental disorder

2) someone who wastes money

3) selective

4) give an imitation that ridicules

(13) recant


1) disclaim or disavow

2) omen

3) tendency to disbelief

4) put to rout

(14) gargoyle


1) false

2) throb

3) persuade by praise or false promise

4) waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building

(15) parallel


1) condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles

2) become engaged to marry

3) similar

4) easily deceived

(16) imminent


1) delicate

2) impending

3) having an odor

4) affectedly grand

(17) plasticity


1) careful in choosing

2) pertaining to the science of the function of living organisms

3) soul

4) ability to be molded

(18) precarious


1) delicate skill

2) pertaining to conversational or common speech

3) petty criticism

4) unsafe

(19) maverick


1) rebel

2) plan of a trip

3) patiently submissiveness

4) unalterable

(20) quagmire


1) wasteful

2) bog

3) improperness

4) minor crime

(21) granulate


1) speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner

2) abnormal or deviant

3) form into grains or granules

4) petition humbly

(22) dingy


1) (of things and place) dirty and dull

2) lawsuit

3) rushing stream

4) small bit or fragment

(23) ostentatious


1) support

2) prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country

3) program as for trial

4) showy

(24) acumen


1) like a lion

2) mental keenness

3) one who supplicates

4) implying a cause-and-effect relationship

(25) chip


1) lose a small piece from the surface or edge

2) moving slowly

3) embezzle

4) e make into an institution