VOCABULARY TEST(MULTIPLE CHOICE) 172

(1) disfigure


1) upset

2) mar the appearance of

3) peaceful

4) detestable

(2) synthesis


1) life after death

2) make return for

3) combining parts or separate things into a whole

4) small ring

(3) poignancy


1) divided into two branches

2) quality of being deeply moving

3) illusive

4) long shallow trench made by a plow

(4) sanctimonious


1) harmful

2) insignificant

3) egg-shaped

4) displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness

(5) chicanery


1) motivated solely by money or gain

2) accidental

3) bully

4) trickery

(6) slough


1) chemical reaction that splits complex organic compounds

2) (of a position, esp. in an argument) indefensible

3) (of a snake) shed or cast off (dead outer skin)

4) conflict

(7) collage


1) angelic

2) work of art put together from fragments

3) surviving remnant (from an extinct culture)

4) abdominal

(8) callow


1) platitude

2) adhesive

3) youthful

4) decay

(9) prompt


1) miser

2) make shiny by rubbing

3) last stop of railroad

4) cause

(10) conception


1) slavishly attentive

2) evil spirit

3) beginning

4) growth or increase in size by gradual addition

(11) oracular


1) food of the gods

2) sad

3) of an oracle

4) place over something else

(12) soothsayer


1) violent

2) one who foretells the future

3) connected with birth

4) official periodical publication

(13) decadence


1) sit on in order to hatch

2) elevated position

3) reject bluntly

4) decay

(14) dossier


1) practical rule guiding conduct

2) file of documents on a subject or person

3) eat away

4) written symbols

(15) sleigh


1) physician specializing in children's diseases

2) gruesome

3) pitcher

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

(16) prim


1) quarrel noisily

2) external

3) father

4) proper to the point of affectation

(17) convex


1) kind in a generous way (to someone less important)

2) casual and offhand

3) reduce

4) curving outward

(18) crux


1) essential or main point

2) counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law

3) unsuited

4) remainder

(19) rumble


1) transient

2) make or move with a deep rolling sound (as thunder or stomach)

3) money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage

4) gruesome

(20) carnivorous


1) (of the tide) recede

2) confused uproar

3) disheveled

4) meat-eating

(21) falter


1) hesitate

2) hostile invasion

3) systematic

4) excuse

(22) gustatory


1) someone easily fooled or deceived

2) affecting or relating to the sense of taste

3) not essential

4) scold with biting harshness

(23) flippant


1) assumption

2) lacking proper seriousness

3) violate (a law)

4) stun

(24) babble


1) talkative

2) lacking caution

3) chatter idly or foolishly

4) make secure against damage or loss

(25) incarnate


1) not to be taken away

2) endowed with flesh

3) concerning trade or merchants

4) speechless