VOCABULARY TEST

1. It’s too windy to go for a stroll. b) tax

a) swim c) vegetable
b) sail d) drink
c) drive
d) walk 8. Arthur dodged their questions.
a) recorded
2. Jeff tried to conceal the truth. b) forgot
a) find c) answered
b) accept d) avoided
c) hide
d) learn 9. It was a perilous fight.
a) pleasant
3. George is such a lousy liar. b) dangerous
a) arrogant c) long
b) questionable d) wonderful
c) disgusting
d) tricky 10. She implored John to come home.
a) helped
4. I was so cocksure of myself that I left b) permitted
my math books at home. c) begged
a) overconfident d) forced
b) crazy
c) outraged
11. Charles’s clothing is always
d) concerned
conspicuous.
5. The courses listed here are a) dusty
compulsory. b) clean
a) practical c) ordinary
b) hard d) noticeable
c) required
d) interesting 12. Her opinions are hazy.
a) changeable
6. He did it deliberately. b) unusual
a) unwillingly c) stupid
b) unexpectedly d) unclear
c) on purpose
d) democratically 13. When he came in I became rattled.
a) became upset
7. Does that price include the b) became happy
beverage? c) heard something
a) tip d) made a noise
14. He has no compassion. b) honesty
a) sympathy c) faith
b) courage d) ability
c) emotion
d) shame 21. He hurled the newspaper.
a) read
15. They have a venerable literary b) delivered
tradition. c) folded
a) a perfect d) threw
b) an old
c) a modern 22. Because of the storm and rough
d) a proud waves, it would be foolish to go out
sailing today in a small _____________.
16. We will wait until he shows up. a) automobile
a) speaks b) house
b) answers c) boat
c) appears d) beast
d) finishes
23. I’m afraid the car may break down;
17. I’m fed up with her actions. it’s been making ____________ noises.
a) happy about a) durable
b) tired of b) sordid
c) interested in c) ominous
d) worried about d) wanton

18. When I heard the news, I decided to 24. Whenever Steve wears a new tie,
enlist. he _______________ something on it.
a) join a) winks
b) read b) bruises
c) leave c) spills
d) write d) scowls

19. That theory is prevalent. 25. Andy’s sudden decision to quit

a) widespread school made a _____________ change
b) correct in his life.
c) wrong a) blunt
d) old b) drastic
c) ponderous
20. No one has ever doubted Jerry’s d) strenuous
integrity.
a) explanations
26. Last year I spent too much money d) prediction of
so I decided to ____________ my
32. The Witners can’t have any children
income carefully this year.
because Mrs. Widner is ____________.
a) budget
a) barren
b)enlist
b) inconceivable
c) schedule
c) unbearable
d) ransom
d) rigid
27. Because old people’s bones become
33. My car uses too much gas. Can you
very _____________ they break easily.
do anything to improve its gas
a) drastic
_____________?
b) scant
a) expenditure
c) chaste
b) expansion
d) brittle
c) consumption
d) compensation
28. After his soldiers won the great
battle, Washington was
34. He isn’t an honest man. He has no
_____________ a hero.
_____________ about cheating people.
a) propagated
a) contradiction
b) acclaimed
b) disposals
c) bequeathed
c) purges
d) entreated
d) scruples
29. Bob is so _______________ that he
35. He was tall, healthy and _________.
does more work than any else.
a) pregnant
a) perceptible
b) ailing
b) energetic
c) squat
c) voluntary
d) husky
d) ponderous

36. Let’s take a one hour _______ for

30. He read the book and wrote a one
lunch.
paragraph __________________ of it.
a) breach
a) summary
b) gap
b) chronicle
c) lease
c) compilation
d) recess
d) index

37. Snow is a ___________ sight in this

31. I would like to discuss history but I
don’t have any __________ the subject. warm place.
a) contention about a) rare
b) familiarity with b) scarce
c) realization of c) hardly
d) little
41. As soon as I came inside, I smelled
38. That city is very crowded; it has the
the ____________ of the roses.
highest _______ of population in the
a) fragrance
country.
b) sweat
a) diagram
c) ascent
b) dilation
d) exposure
c) dialect
d) density
42. He can’t be trusted; he is a _______
liar.
39. Clothes are made from threads
a) widespread
which have been __________together.
b) superfluous
a) stitched
c) notorious
b) woven
d) tremulous
c) shrunk
d) sewn

40. I had to _________ the tire with air.

a) fluff
b) intensity
c) augment
d) inflate
 ANSWERS

1. d 14. a 27. d 40. d

2. c 15. b 28. b 41. a

3. c 16. c 29. b 42. b

4. a 17. b 30. a

5. c 18. a 31. b

6. c 19. a 32. a

7. d 20. b 33. c

8. d 21. d 34. d

9. b 22. c 35. c

10. c 23. b 36. d

11. d 24. c 37. b

12. d 25. b 38. b

13. d 26. a 39. d