WORD POWER, Test 2 & 3

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.