Vocabulary Test - 1

1. Idiosyncrasy is:

• the ideology of a political party or organization
• a peculiar habit or characteristic of an individual or group
• a synchronous movement between two mechanical parts
• a characteristic of selfish people

2. Someone with excessive concern for precision and formal rules is:

• moribund
• zealous
• pedantic
• rustic

3. Beleaguer means:

• to lend money
• to harass
• to sympathize
• to scare

4. “John’s __________ was irritating. He was reluctant even to buy bread!”

• jealousy
• soreness
• luck
• parsimony

5. An ombudsman is:

• an impartial person who watches for administrative abuses inside organizations
• a person with unrivaled powers inside the government
• the head of any organization who is elected by a majority voting system
• a person who is granted political asylum in a country that is facing civil war

6. If something is in oblivion:

• time has severely ruined its forms
• it has been confiscated by a governmental body
• people have completely forgotten about it
• it can no longer be commercially traded between two or more countries

7. The fights on the streets created a big:

• void
• turmoil
• cyst
• foil

8. Mary was always able to recover quickly from misfortunes. She was very:

• witty
• brave
• resilient
• zany

9. A Pyrrhic victory is:

• a naval victory where all the ships from one side sink
• a victory where one of the sides flees
• actually a stalemate
• a victory with huge losses

10. The ________ steps confirmed he was hiding from someone.

• furtive
• wild
• puzzled
• gleaming