Here's Test 2 and Test 3
(Following this post I'll include Test 4 and 5; then the answers to all)
TEST 2:
(1) INFRACTION--A: an interruption. B: a fracture. C: a delay. D: a violation.
(2) TORRID--A: coarse. B: extremely hot. C: hurried. D: angry.
(3) EXUDE--A: discharge slowly. B: dry out. C: boast. D: flatter.
(4) IMMUNE--A: silent. B: protected against disease. C: stubborn. D: imprisoned.
(5) TERSE--A: provoked. B: tense. C: brief. D: serious.
(6) NETTLE--A: to catch. B: to vex. C: to prick. D: to deceive.
(7) LAGGARD--A: careless. B: slow. C: untidy. D: lazy.
(8) ALIENATE--A: to make friendly. B: to travel widely. C: to make hostile. D: to ban.
(9) FEIGN--A: to pretend. B: to disdain. C: to flatter. D: to be favorably disposed.
(10) RAVAGE--A: to enrage. B: to plunder. C: to be devious. D: to tempt.
Here is a still harder list. If you are an average adult the odds are that you will miss about one third of these words.
TEST 3:
(1) PREVARICATION--A: confusion. B: wandering around. C: a deviation from the truth. D: an act of delay.
(2) BERSERK--A: hairy. B: in a frenzy. C: foreign. D: disheveled.
(3) PUNITIVE--A: punishing. B: incidental. C: strong. D: deceptive.
(4) VAUNTED--A: greatly desired. B: boasted. C: powerful. D: empty.
(5) ALTERCATE--A: to occur in turns. B: to dispute angrily. C: to agree. D: to change.
(6) INVEIGLE--A: to provoke. B: to corrupt with money. C: to bulldoze. D: to entice.
(7) IMPETUOUSITY--A: peevishness. B: rash and sudden haste. C: great anger. D: persistence.
(8) ARROGANT--A: claiming without right. B: uninterested in others. C: proud and disdainful. D: towering.
(9) EULOGY--A: high praise. B: criticism. C: hope. D: a lament for the dead.
(10) EVOCATION--A: a cancellation. B: a creation. C: a calling forth. D: a hobby.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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