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By: Yacoob Bazleh
(Los Angeles, California, U.S.)
Test Your Vocabulary
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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. Dumbwaiter:
a) a waiter who keeps making mistakes in a customerOs order;
b) a carry-all
the hotel staff uses to carry luggage; c) a small elevator arrangement
for
carrying food from one floor to another; d) a waiter who speaks
in sign
language for deaf customers.
2. Ad-lib:
a) to improvise; b) to improve oneOs speech; c) to be absent
minded; d) to
turn and face the other way.
3. Brain-storm:
a) swelling of the brain tissues; b) to predict a coming storm;
c) to expand
and branch out in different directions; d) to come up with a
clever idea.
4. Latent:
a) distinct; b) apparent; c) hidden; d) conclusive.
5. Lassitude:
a) alertness; b) not being serious; c) tbeing weary or tired;
d) to excite.
6. Breathing Spell:
a) shortage of breath; b) to cast a spell; c) a period of rest;
d) to
whistle through the larynx.
7. Abeyance:
a) suspension; b) feeling of wrong doing; c) to revive; d) to
deviate.
8. Capricious:
a) constant; b) steadfast; c) erratic; d) flirtatious.
9. Cardinal:
a) minor; b) essential.; c) to follow the majority; d) knitted
jacket.
10. Calumny:
a) to give to charity; b) commendation; c) to slander; d) to
praise for good
work done.
11. Chastity:
a) lewdness; b) punishable; c) purity; d) to humiliate.
12. Canon:
a) a large gun with a relatively short barrel; b) a loud sound;
c) the law
and body of laws of a church; d) the quality of being fair.
13. Carousal:
a) In billiard, to make a ball hit and rebound; b) to travel
in luxury; c)
making merry in a group; d) to praise or celebrate in a song.
14. Chivalrous:
a) to belong to a cavalry regiment; b) being faint-hearted; c)
cowardly i;
d) act of being gallant.
15. Coax:
a) to call softly; b) to persuade by soothing words; c) reproach;
d)
apprehend.
16. Complaisant:
a) to complain about other peopleOs behavior; b) to lament; c)
to be willing
to please;
d) to have an uncomfortable feeling.
17. Cobbler:
a) to pave with cobblestones; b) a shoemaker; c) a friend; d)
a small
fishing boat.
18. Conspicuous:
a) mysterious; b) obscure or unknown; c) outstanding or prominent;
d) to
make complete.
19. Concept:
a) to accept; b) to admit as true; c) a personOs conviction or
opinion; d) a
matter of interest.
20. Cursory:
a) thorough; b) hasty; c) disturbing; d) inferior.
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