Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Select Meaning by Word Test @ I

1. defeatist

  • adj. resigned to defeat; accepting defeat as a natural outcome
  • n. substance causing vomiting
  • v. degrade; humiliate
  • adj. twisted; with a humorous twist

2. militant

  • adj. bloody
  • adj. having many talents; capable of working in many fields
  • adj. regretful; sorrowful
  • adj. combative; bellicose

3. toga

  • n. Roman outer robe
  • n. fortress
  • n. pedestal; raised platform
  • adj. after death (as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death

4. atrophy

  • n. wasting away
  • v. commence; go on board a boat
  • n. study of insects
  • adj. hairy

5. behoove

  • n. armed band
  • v. be suited to; be incumbent upon
  • v. plunder
  • v. show clearly

6. interminable

  • adj. endless
  • adj. expedient; prudent
  • v. soothe
  • v. arrange (laws, rules) as a code; classify

7. foist

  • v. set free
  • v. lessen in value
  • v. insert improperly; palm off
  • n. imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing

8. analgesic

  • adj. ghastly
  • n. hermit
  • adj. causing insensitivity to pain
  • n. someone who wastes money

9. exacerbate

  • n. wrong name; incorrect designation
  • n. motion; gesture
  • v. worsen; embitter
  • v. pare; cut off bits

10. braggart

  • v. join together, unite
  • n. boaster
  • adj. praising
  • n. distance around something; circumference

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