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