VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 169

(1) dearth


1) oversimplified

2) scarcity

3) grand suggesting great expense

4) one who has more than one spouse at a time

(2) dint


1) means

2) belittle

3) cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe)

4) condemnation to a severe penalty

(3) tribute


1) tax levied by a ruler

2) person who enjoys his own pain

3) slow-thinking stupid person

4) conclusion of an oration

(4) braggadocio


1) excessively or elaborately decorated

2) burning

3) boasting

4) rotting flesh of a dead body

(5) invert


1) turn upside down or inside out

2) hot-tempered

3) bending of a ray of light

4) mutually agreed on

(6) vampire


1) ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living

2) hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food

3) dry up

4) mania for doing grandiose things

(7) bequeath


1) stubbornly wrong

2) leave to someone by means of a will

3) fully filled

4) flow out slowly

(8) obtuse


1) blunt

2) frankness

3) beat with a whip or flail

4) claw of bird

(9) divest


1) grow well

2) strip (as of clothes)

3) glowing ardor

4) parody

(10) provincial


1) showing excitement

2) fashionable

3) make whole

4) pertaining to a province

(11) alimony


1) payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce

2) painting in only one color

3) wise

4) lacking proper seriousness

(12) anticlimax


1) crystal clear

2) letdown in thought or emotion

3) sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)

4) unpredictable

(13) warp


1) standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces

2) disentangle

3) eating both plant and animal food

4) twist out of shape

(14) transcendental


1) swamp gas

2) feeling of sickness and desire to vomit

3) grisly

4) going beyond common thought or ideas

(15) brittle


1) multi-colored (as of a garment worn by a jester)

2) hard but easily broken

3) person who establishes (an organization or business)

4) self-governing

(16) stringent


1) face

2) (of rules) binding

3) simultaneous discharge of a number of shots

4) government run by religious leaders

(17) pique


1) compelling charm

2) widespread

3) connected with history

4) irritation

(18) debilitate


1) hindrance

2) ver) strategic military or naval movement (done for training purposes)

3) dormant

4) weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness)

(19) legacy


1) gift made by a will

2) legally correct

3) posion

4) shriveled

(20) wax


1) overcome

2) increase gradually (as the moon)

3) (of beliefs) against accepted opinion

4) take part in a conspiracy

(21) perversion


1) fill up again

2) permanent

3) corruption

4) provide for the payment of

(22) monogram


1) self-important

2) design composed of one or more initials of a name

3) choosing of a lot or card

4) (of behavior) proper

(23) exorbitant


1) experienced as if one were taking part in the experience of another

2) goodness

3) relating to cooking or kitchen

4) (of costs or demands) excessive

(24) scourge


1) spoken or written in secret

2) swimming

3) lash

4) inconspicuous

(25) perspicacious


1) pacify or soothe

2) short speech at conclusion of dramatic work

3) harmful

4) (of someone) having insight