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Contributed by: JEROME
  • 1. BACK
A) the part behind the front
B) to do something
C) a container usually made of glass
D) to damage severely
  • 2. ADVISE
A) to try to do as well as
B) to help with information
C) to try to hear
D) to give reasons for
  • 3. AGAIN
A) the hard material in the body
B) another time, as before
C) a cloth cover used to keep warm
D) to say something that makes another person angry
  • 4. AMOUNT
A) the number, size or weight of anything
B) having a thin edge that can cut
C) to show that the action is done
D) to have life, to exist
  • 5. AGE
A) to work as an official
B) to divide or injure with a sharp tool
C) a picture of the earth's surface or a part of it
D) how old a person or thing is
  • 6. ADMIT
A) An area of open land, usually used to grow crops
B) Of a different or unusual kind, not for general use
C) To accept, to express one’s guilt or responsibility
D) To sit, lie down or sleep to regain strength
  • 7. ANY
A) From higher to lower , in a low place
B) To return to good health, to cure
C) A long-established belief or activity of people
D) One or more of no special kind
  • 8. ANNOUNCE
A) To make known publicly, to declare officially
B) Different as possible, completely different from
C) A strong, colorless liquid usually made from grain
D) The science of changing the genes of a living organism
  • 9. ACROSS
A) At the end, last
B) A building in which people live
C) A structure built over a waterway
D) From side to side, to the other side
  • 10. ASK
A) To guard or fight against attack
B) Any business that produces goods or provides services
C) To question, to say something is wanted
D) A device that permits a person to fall slowly from an airplane
  • 11. ASTRONOMY
A) To add to or to change
B) The main amount of food eaten at a usual time
C) The scientific study of stars and the universe
D) A device that uses radio signals to learn the position of speed
  • 12. AMBASSADOR
A) A number of people or things together
B) A nation’s higher diplomatic representative
C) Truthful or able to be trusted
D) To move one way and the other
  • 13. ANSWER
A) A statement produced by a question
B) To cause a feeling of wonder
C) To continue
D) To believe that someone is honest
  • 14. ANCESTOR
A) To sit, lie down or sleep
B) The group that include children
C) A path on land or sea or in the air
D) A family member from the past
  • 15. ARTILLERY
A) Big guns
B) To make quiet, to stop from speaking
C) Needing an immediate decision
D) Very shortly before or after the present
  • 16. AGO
A) A line of genes
B) A line of genes
C) Of time past, before now
D) Not guilty of a crime
  • 17. AS
A) A thought or picture in the mind
B) Not expected, without warning
C) To teach how to do something
D) Equally, when
  • 18. AVOID
A) To stay away from
B) The coldest time of year
C) To do or go fast
D) To come together with someone or something
  • 19. ANGER
A) To come with something
B) To present to another to keep
C) To make larger, to grow larger
D) A strong emotion against someone
  • 20. ABOVE
A) A material made from a plant
B) To move smoothly over a surface
C) At a higher place
D) A machine without wings
  • 21. AVERAGE
A) To pull apart
B) A number representing the middle
C) To try with much effort
D) To put in order
  • 22. AFRAID
A) To take away blame
B) Freedom from danger or harm
C) To give, to provide
D) Feeling fear
  • 23. ALMOST
A) Of or having a relation to
B) A little less than completely
C) However, other than
D) To force a fluid into
  • 24. AID
A) Food eaten to satisfy hunger
B) Land controlled by another country
C) To forgive for a crime
D) To help, to support
  • 25. ACCEPT
A) To study or examine all information
B) To agree to receive
C) The force that pulls things
D) A mass of fog high in the sky
  • 26. ACT
A) A word used with an action
B) Having the power to do something
C) To be of the correct size or shape
D) To do something
  • 27. ASH
A) To extend for a distance
B) The number meaning none
C) The part left after something burns
D) To hit again and again
  • 28. APOLOGIZE
A) Able to be done
B) To cause great fear
C) Having much knowledge and understanding
D) To express regret for a mistake
  • 29. AUTOMOBILE
A) The gas that comes from hot water
B) To act toward in a special way
C) A vehicle with wheels used to carry people
D) To cause pain, injury or damage
  • 30. AIRPORT
A) Connecting word used to link things
B) Place where airplanes take off
C) To make a part of
D) To give or receive one thing for another
  • 31. BUDGET
A) A spending plan
B) To be against
C) Not one or the other two
D) A large collection of money
  • 32. AFFABLE
A) Corrosive, sarcastic
B) Exhibiting rainbow-like colors
C) Brawl, melee
D) Courteous
  • 33. ADORN
A) Decorate
B) Lacking development
C) Rushing stream, flood
D) Winemaker, seller of wine
  • 34. ABERRANT
A) Home
B) Abnormal or deviant
C) Treat gently, pamper
D) A place where bees are kept
  • 35. ADJURATION
A) Solemn urging
B) Rebound, reverberation
C) Animal-biting fly, an irritating person
D) Cancel, retract
  • 36. ADJUNCT
A) Subordinate
B) Something attached holding an inferior position
C) Repentant
D) Moving force, Incentive
  • 37. ABSOLVE
A) Pardon an offense
B) Slander, disgrace
C) Characteristic of an entire class
D) Line
  • 38. ADVENTITIOUS
A) Projection, conjecture
B) Title, chapter heading
C) Accidental, casual
D) Enormously large or extensive
  • 39. ABRASIVE
A) Rubbing away, tending to grind down
B) Suggest a meaning not expressed
C) Express sympathetic sorrow
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 40. ABJECT
A) To strip a priest or minister
B) Drink alcoholic beverages frequently
C) Wretched, lacking pride
D) Chew the cud, ponder
  • 41. DISAFFECTED
A) Disloyal
B) Sentry, lookout
C) Dramatic poem set to music
D) Introduction, forerunner
  • 42. DEVOTEE
A) Discord
B) Injury to the body
C) Enthusiastic follower
D) Turn away from
  • 43. DEXTEROUS
A) Weightless
B) Skillful
C) Spiritual rebirth
D) Shrink back, as if in fear
  • 44. DESPOTISM
A) Tyranny
B) Essentially, inherently
C) Secret, hidden
D) Openmouthed
  • 45. DEROGATORY
A) Expressing a low opinion
B) Limit, confine
C) Move briskly
D) Not able to be perceived by touch
  • 46. DIDACTIC
A) Teaching, instructional
B) Substance that propels forward
C) Bloody
D) Gradual intrusion
  • 47. DIE
A) Declaration, statement of policy
B) Knickknack, bauble
C) Device for stamping or impressing
D) Confuse, puzzle
  • 48. DEMEANOR
A) Mischance, ill luck
B) Person hardened in sin
C) Swollen or puffed as with water
D) Behavior, bearing
  • 49. DESICCATE
A) Dry up
B) Theme
C) Make a harsh noise
D) Effusively sentimental
  • 50. DERIDE
A) Call upon, ask for
B) Scoff at
C) Survey of enemy by soldiers
D) Waste
  • 51. DISCREPANCY
A) Worldly as opposed to spiritual
B) Contract into wrinkles
C) Something long-lasting
D) Lack of consistency, difference
  • 52. DOLDRUMS
A) Blues, listlessness
B) Sign, omen
C) Essential quality
D) Temporary invasion
  • 53. DISEMBARK
A) Basically different, unrelated
B) Slovenly, untidy
C) Solemn wonder
D) Go ashore, unload cargo from a ship
  • 54. DISPIRITED
A) Honor, tribute
B) Scowl
C) Lacking in spirit
D) Something new, newness
  • 55. DISSIPATE
A) Deserving high respect
B) Statement that looks false but is correct
C) Teaching, art of education
D) Squander
  • 56. DOCKET
A) Connoisseur of food and drink
B) Enormously large or extensive
C) Method or system of government
D) Program as for trial
  • 57. DORMER
A) Window projecting from roof
B) Ardent
C) Profitable
D) Stir up, instigate
  • 58. DIVINE
A) Stupid, awkward person
B) Perceive intuitively
C) Eating away by chemicals or disease
D) Happening at the same time
  • 59. DON
A) Clever
B) Put on
C) Decay
D) Courage
  • 60. DISSEMINATE
A) Guardianship
B) Ghostly
C) Financial aid
D) Scatter like seeds
  • 61. EFFUSIVE
A) Pouring forth, gushing
B) Beg persistently
C) Cloyingly sweet
D) Greedy, eager for
  • 62. ELUCIDATE
A) Unruly
B) Ability to foretell the future
C) Half asleep
D) Explain, enlighten
  • 63. DULCET
A) Follow
B) Sweet sounding
C) Shell covering the back of a turtle
D) Excessive, overabundant
  • 64. EMINENT
A) Conscientious, extremely thorough
B) Talkativeness
C) High, lofty
D) Whimsical idea, extravagant metaphor
  • 65. ENJOIN
A) Fate
B) Assist usually in doing something wrong
C) Confuse, upset
D) Command, order
  • 66. ENCOMIUM
A) Invention, imaginary thing
B) High praise, eulogy
C) Choosing at random, confused
D) Courting favor by cringing
  • 67. EFFIMANATE
A) Beak, pen point
B) Pompous array of words
C) Uncouple, separate
D) Having womanly traits
  • 68. EDIFY
A) Thrift, economy
B) Instruct, correct morally
C) Pale, wan
D) Title, chapter heading
  • 69. EMANATE
A) Copy
B) Issue forth
C) Hasty, rash
D) Period of equal days and nights
  • 70. EMBROIL
A) Stingy, excessively frugal
B) Not able to be perceived
C) Throw into confusion
D) Seize, commandeer
  • 71. EXASPERATE
A) Dissolve, disperse
B) Relating to the highest point
C) Dwarf, underground spirit
D) Vex
  • 72. EPICURE
A) Bitterness, nerve
B) Vengeance, compensation
C) Tip
D) Connoisseur of food and drink
  • 73. EPILOGUE
A) Short speech at conclusion of dramatic work
B) Lacking luxury and comfort
C) Having to do with predicting the future
D) Yellowed, prejudiced
  • 74. EXOTIC
A) Pertaining to the church
B) Anger, fury
C) Pleasant, friendly
D) Not native, strange
  • 75. ENUNCIATE
A) Inform
B) Giving off an odor
C) Speak distinctly
D) Showing off learning, bookish
  • 76. EQUITABLE
A) Verbose, drawn out
B) Druggist
C) Divided into classes, arranged into strata
D) Fair, impartial
  • 77. EPAULET
A) Ornament worn on the shoulder
B) Grow tiresome
C) Liberal, wasteful
D) Marked with parallel bands
  • 78. EXACTING
A) Impetuous, with marked vigor
B) Extremely demanding
C) Bold
D) Emit an odor
  • 79. EXEMPLARY
A) Nearsighted
B) Serving as a model
C) Extend, draw out
D) Wander aimlessly
  • 80. EPHITET
A) Rickety, falling apart
B) Word or phrase used to describe a person
C) Bitterness, hatred
D) Imagined, unreal
  • 81. FANFARE
A) Relating to space
B) Call by bugles or trumpets
C) Drink in
D) Concerning the sense of smell
  • 82. FIAT
A) Long heroic poem or similar work of art
B) Command
C) Apparent, professed
D) Fertile, abundant
  • 83. FESTER
A) Glowing ardor
B) A light meal
C) Rankle, produce irritation or resentment
D) Standstill, stalemate
  • 84. FANCIER
A) Make impossible, eliminate
B) Meeting
C) Breeder or dealer of animals
D) Accuse, serve as evidence against
  • 85. FANTASTIC
A) Unreal, grotesque
B) Most sacred, inviolable
C) Spasmodic, intermittent
D) Bear fruit
  • 86. FATHOM
A) Fear or hatred of foreigners
B) Outward decorations, ornaments
C) Laying stress on niceties of conduct or form
D) Comprehend, investigate
  • 87. EXPLETIVE
A) Interjection, profaner oath
B) Hardship, want
C) Person wearing tattered clothes
D) Sorcery magic
  • 88. EXPLOIT
A) Vicious assault
B) Make use of, sometimes unjustly
C) Object of general attention
D) Courtesy, civility
  • 89. FILCH
A) Prolong
B) Steal
C) Aimless follower of the arts
D) Burden
  • 90. FLACCID
A) Diligent attention
B) Flabby
C) Vain about dress and appearance
D) Displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness
  • 91. GRUFF
A) Existence, means of support
B) Rough-mannered
C) Beginner, novice
D) Make shiny by rubbing, polish
  • 92. GLUTTON
A) Someone who eats too much
B) Written statement made under oath
C) Foul, rotten
D) Wealthy leader
  • 93. GAWK
A) Stare foolishly, look in open-mouthed awe
B) Inhabitant of
C) Generate pus
D) Sharp projection form fishhook
  • 94. GESTICULATION
A) One of a family of mammals
B) Group that meets socially
C) Purgative
D) Motion, gesture
  • 95. GARNER
A) Gather, store up
B) Oversimplified, lacking individuality
C) Group that meets socially
D) Reproduce, duplicate
  • 96. GENUFLECT
A) Subordinate, secondary
B) Easily broken, difficult
C) Bend the knee as in worship
D) Having the odor of stale fat
  • 97. GENERALITY
A) Vague statement
B) Wasteful, reckless with money
C) Person entitled to benefits or proceeds
D) Requiring sitting
  • 98. GRAPHIC
A) Pertaining to the of delineating
B) Oppression, cruel government
C) False belief, hallucination
D) Profane, impious
  • 99. GROVEL
A) Crawl or creep on ground
B) Subordinate
C) Sky blue
D) Woman who rules a family
  • 100. GOAD
A) Urge on
B) Juicy, full of richness
C) Restrained, self-controlled
D) Those of gentle birth, refinement
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