Online English Test

1) allocate

a) v. set aside; designate
b) adj. natural; inborn
c) adj. difficult to please; dainty
d) adj. unnecessary; extra

2) predecessor

a) v. to turn to bone; to harden
b) n. one who has occupied an office before another
c) n. a purposely misleading statement
d) v. to influence or persuade

3) stigmatize

a)n. an impossible fancy
b) v. to characterize or make as disgraceful
c) adj. having lines or grooves
d) n. the rounded, upward-projecting front of a saddle

4) servile

a) adj. slavish; groveling
b) adj. unimportant; small
c) adj. damp and chilly
d) adj. clever, resourceful

5) earthy

a) adj. unrefined
b) adj. productive
c) n. a word or phrase which reads the same backwards and forwards
d) n. vileness

6) profound

a) adj. hard to catch
b) adj. deep; knowledgeable
c) adj. being hard to deal with; unsolved situation
d) v. to enfeeble; to wear out

7) kinship

a) v. to blot out; to delete
b) v. to be advantageous; to be necessary
c) n. condition of being physically agitated; disturbance
d) n. family relationship; affinity

8) heresy

a) n. very hard work; intense pain or agony
b) n. opinion contrary to popular belief
c) v. to agree without protest
d) adj. dangerous; harmful

9) circumlocutory

a) n. a rebuke
b) adj. wasteful; lavish
c) adj. being too long, as in a description or expression; a roundabout, indirect, or ungainly way of expressing something
d) n. disaster

10) jettison

a) v. to throw overboard goods to lighten a vehicle; to discard
b) v. annoy; irritate
c) adj. spread out; verbose (wordy)
d) v. condescend; stoop