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