Test Your Vocabulary - Part 3 By: Yacoob Bazleh (Los Angeles, California, U.S.) Seek the word or phrase you believe is nearest in meaning to the initial bold word. After finishing the test, click to see the correct answers, and your score. Good luck! 1-effervescent: a) sedate; b) lively and high spirited; c) powerful; d) audacity. 2-egotism: a) Deference; b) refined; c) self-conceit; d) enraptured 3-exorcise: a) going beyond what is reasonable; b) to persuade by pleading; c) physical activity; d) to drive out evil spirits by ritual prayer. 4-chicanery: a) to corrupt; b) duplicity or trickery; c) to censure; d) to breed chickens. 5-emancipate: a) to inspire; b) to stimulate; c) to liberate or set free; d) to show the way to get things done. 6-elucidate: a) to make clear or explain; b) to evade or dodge an issue; c) to escape by quickness or cunning; d) speech or writing that is complex or difficult to understand. 7-embezzle: a) to wreck or destroy; b) to steal money etc: entrusted to ones care; c) to store money in a vault; d) to light up or illuminate. 8-embroidery: a) flowery speech; b)to improve or give special attention to a job; c) to draw into a conflict or fight; d) to make a design on fabric with needle-work. 9-encumber: a) to stimulate; b) to make dangerous; c) to obstruct; d) to trespass or intrude. 10-enervate: a) to give blood; b) to energize; c) to inspire; d) to deprive of strength or energy. 11-epitome: a) summary; b) an inscription on a tombstone; c) a phrase used to characterize some person or thing; d) a form of lyric poem. 12-etiquette: a) ethnic classification; b) to study characteristic behavior patterns; c) forms and manners established by convention as acceptable; d) to respect. 13- Euthanasia: a) an easy and painless death; b) the movement devoted to improving species and breeds; c) to escape or avoid by deceit; d) a country in S.E Asia. 14-Excerpt: a) exceptional; b) to remove a tumor by cutting out or away; c) to select or quote passages from a book; d) to apply strength or straining effort. 15-facetious: a) to stand face to face with another person; b) to joke or try to be jocular at an inappropriate time; c) to preserve one's dignity or self-respect; d) to cause conflict within a party. 16-felicitate: a) to feel good about one's behavior; b) to make one happy; c) to inspire; d) to return a favor. 17-filament: a) threadlike parasitic worm; b) to obstruct the passing of a bill; c) a delicate lacelike ornamental work; d) the fine metal wire in a light bulb. 18-finesse: a) the ability to handle delicate and difficult situations skillfully and diplomatically; b) to get something by being cunning; c) to complete a complicated work of art; d) to be extremely dainty or fussy. 19-fractious: a) to separate; b) a break or crack; c) hard to manage; d) very small, unimportant, insignificant. 20-famish: a) to be knowledgeable; b) to be famous; c) to become weak from hunger; d) a religious cult. To see the correct answers and your score, click here.