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