| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 1 | giving off an odor |
1 commonplace 2 incinerate 3 bearing 4 unfrock 5 odoriferous | |
| 2 | cruel; (of a disease) deadly |
1 tugboat 2 puissant 3 fell 4 reactionary 5 lyric | |
| 3 | lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts, not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose |
1 fete(f\^ete) 2 prosaic 3 cumulative 4 stately 5 plot | |
| 4 | excessively fat; N. obesity |
1 coroner 2 precocious 3 obese 4 nag 5 homogeneous | |
| 5 | breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap; opening; V. |
1 incredulity 2 unearthly 3 breach 4 sizable 5 lethargic | |
| 6 | make lively or spirited; animate |
1 estimable 2 pulsate 3 ruddy 4 enliven 5 cantankerous | |
| 7 | causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague) |
1 pestilential(pestilent) 2 best 3 respite 4 sibling 5 hoodwink | |
| 8 | mass of wood for burning a corpse |
1 delineate 2 gusher 3 colloquy 4 pyre 5 trudge | |
| 9 | very important; N. moment; CF. momentary |
1 aegis 2 overdue 3 momentous 4 obese 5 enclave | |
| 10 | bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together |
1 judiciary 2 disillusion 3 abstract 4 reagent 5 sheaf | |
| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 11 | haughty; arrogant; condescending; patronizing; CF. eyebrow, cilium |
1 gracious 2 corrugated 3 indecision 4 necklace 5 supercilious | |
| 12 | (of a person) bold; adventurous; daring; (of an action) risky |
1 sluice 2 uproar 3 anthropologist 4 castrate 5 venturesome | |
| 13 | apparatus for controlling a horse or for fastening a horse to a cart; V. |
1 remediable 2 factious 3 lachrymose 4 harness 5 propitiate | |
| 14 | floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece |
1 veneer 2 proliferate 3 connoisseur 4 propulsive 5 parquet | |
| 15 | enormously large or extensive |
1 remiss 2 layman 3 impropriety 4 flowery 5 astronomical | |
| 16 | dry food for livestock; fodder |
1 treatise 2 mature 3 bettor 4 solder 5 provender | |
| 17 | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
1 plot 2 compliance 3 gild 4 abstemious 5 cantankerous | |
| 18 | waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation |
1 depreciate 2 preamble 3 parity 4 vacillate 5 weird | |
| 19 | underwater explosive apparatus; V. |
1 misconstrue 2 megalomania 3 torpedo 4 heedless 5 chorus | |
| 20 | examination of a dead body; postmortem; V. |
1 bilk 2 autopsy 3 secular 4 incontrovertible 5 covetous | |
| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 21 | cut down; cut down expenses; economize |
1 dowse 2 handbill 3 sportive 4 retrench 5 skinflint | |
| 22 | unjustified; having no justification; groundless; baseless; undeserved |
1 lust 2 gravity 3 rectify 4 unwarranted 5 orthography | |
| 23 | conventions; moral standards; moral customs |
1 gestate 2 encipher 3 frenzied 4 mores 5 frock | |
| 24 | composed (with no excitement); grave; V: administer a sedative to; CF. sedative |
1 sedate 2 address 3 tundra 4 placard 5 beseech | |
| 25 | messenger |
1 courier 2 pedant 3 animadversion 4 stupefy 5 institutionalize | |
| 26 | poet |
1 incur 2 vanquish 3 gangway 4 bard 5 trunk | |
| 27 | power to produce desired effect; ADJ. efficacious: effectual |
1 grandiloquent 2 pontifical 3 coterminous 4 gambit 5 efficacy | |
| 28 | food; CF. live |
1 gauche 2 defunct 3 canter 4 moodiness 5 viand | |
| 29 | picture made of small colorful inlaid tiles; ADJ. |
1 enmesh 2 millennium 3 allocate 4 outmoded 5 mosaic | |
| 30 | put in danger |
1 imperil 2 connoisseur 3 parable 4 avarice 5 spasmodic | |
| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 31 | freedom from punishment or harm; CF. punish |
1 abstinence 2 cursory 3 atrophy 4 impunity 5 edifice | |
| 32 | small amount (of money); small allowance or wage |
1 dismantle 2 rejoinder 3 imperil 4 pittance 5 bode | |
| 33 | seize; take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment); commandeer |
1 prologue 2 reimburse 3 ursine 4 confiscate 5 cramp | |
| 34 | counselor; teacher |
1 miscellany 2 suitcase 3 mentor 4 faucet 5 canny | |
| 35 | glass water bottle; decanter |
1 leonine 2 vendor 3 carafe 4 latent 5 equity | |
| 36 | bring (parts) together to form a single whole; combine |
1 plebiscite 2 disconsolate 3 tarantula 4 console 5 conflate | |
| 37 | make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying) |
1 facade 2 shrivel 3 tryst 4 unguent 5 ventilate | |
| 38 | dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes |
1 presentiment 2 decapitate 3 misogamy 4 ragamuffin 5 paddle | |
| 39 | formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears; group of men packed together (for attack or defense) |
1 scurvy 2 millinery 3 amorphous 4 transpose 5 phalanx | |
| 40 | drink greedily |
1 clientele 2 proxy 3 commodious 4 swill 5 imperil | |
| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 41 | gather into wrinkles or folds; N: wrinkle or fold |
1 plaster 2 wreath 3 gravel 4 consummate 5 pucker | |
| 42 | made of bone; bony |
1 herbivorous 2 deface 3 fathomless 4 blueprint 5 osseous | |
| 43 | thrift; economy; ADJ. frugal: practicing economy; costing little; inexpensive |
1 frugality 2 plebeian 3 dishearten 4 bellicose 5 offhand | |
| 44 | all products of human thought; breeding of animals or growing of plants; CF. agriculture, horticulture |
1 culture 2 caption 3 expostulation 4 pigment 5 abusive | |
| 45 | quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
1 supererogatory 2 imbalance 3 hummock 4 charlatan 5 incapacitate | |
| 46 | slip or slide |
1 missile 2 slither 3 aegis 4 fortuitous 5 conclusive | |
| 47 | infinite; limitless |
1 shipment 2 contiguous 3 carnal 4 toss 5 illimitable | |
| 48 | ornament worn around the neck; |
1 biennial 2 resplendent 3 apiculture 4 necklace 5 torso | |
| 49 | pouring forth; unrestrained outpouring of feeling; V. effuse: pour out; ADJ. effusive: pouring forth; gushing |
1 sidewalk 2 spectral 3 distinct 4 effusion 5 sobriety | |
| 50 | hard foot (as of the horse) |
1 celestial 2 restraint 3 hoof 4 diadem 5 lilliputian | |
| Number | Question | Answer | Your answer |
| 51 | descent; ancestry |
1 wiggle 2 allocate 3 lineage 4 cartilage 5 sway | |
| 52 | of a fetus; N. fetus: foetus; unborn young of a vertebrate (distinguished from the earlier embryo); |
1 spoilsport 2 fetal 3 warranty 4 trident 5 voodoo | |
| 53 | act or manner of using; accepted practice; way in which words are actually used |
1 usage 2 frieze 3 milestone 4 mote 5 effulgent | |
| 54 | advanced in development; N. precocity |
1 brawn 2 precocious 3 disciple 4 peruse 5 hibernal | |
| 55 | delicate; of very fine quality |
1 incorporate 2 choice 3 anthropologist 4 intermediary 5 missive | |
| 56 | eerie; strange; unnatural |
1 certify 2 maxim 3 weird 4 condiments 5 cravat | |
| 57 | distortion; burlesque |
1 nonentity 2 belligerent 3 adulterate 4 caricature 5 prop | |
| 58 | questionable medicine; quack medicine; CF. our (remedy) |
1 chaotic 2 nostrum 3 teetotalism 4 friction 5 artifice | |
| 59 | pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite |
1 stun 2 carping 3 broil 4 hypocritical 5 growl | |
| 60 | attic |
1 garret 2 pragmatist 3 dissipate 4 dissident 5 denizen |