| Name _____________________________ | Date ___________________ |
| Multiple Choice |
| ______ | 1. | exacerbate |
| a. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. | ||
| b. the circumstances of a taxpayer, as age or number of dependents, that allow him or her to make certain deductions from taxable income. | ||
| c. serving as an illustration or specimen; illustrative; typical | ||
| d. serving to allow one to avoid, escape, or fail to perform something. |
| ______ | 2. | eulogy |
| a. to honor or glorify. | ||
| b. to issue or dispatch, as an official document or letter. | ||
| c. a spoken or written tribute, esp. to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. | ||
| d. to free from blame; absolve; exculpate. |
| ______ | 3. | exalt |
| a. a trip on a train, ship, etc., at a reduced rate | ||
| b. to stimulate, as the imagination | ||
| c. to elicit or draw forth | ||
| d. the act of exempting or condition of being exempted; freedom from an obligation, rule, or the like. |
| ______ | 4. | exhort |
| a. to revive or restore to prominence, esp. after a period of obscurity. | ||
| b. to advise, urge, or incite with great seriousness. | ||
| c. to give off or emit, as odors or vapors. | ||
| d. to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate |
| ______ | 5. | evasive |
| a. of a uniquely new or experimental nature | ||
| b. to develop, achieve, or devise gradually. | ||
| c. a spoken or written tribute, esp. to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. | ||
| d. elusive or evanescent. |
| ______ | 6. | exemption |
| a. tending to be meticulous; rigorous. | ||
| b. diversion from the topic at hand; digression. | ||
| c. the state of being exempted; immunity. | ||
| d. to make hollow by removing the inner part; make a hole or cavity in; form into a hollow, as by digging |
| ______ | 7. | excavate |
| a. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. | ||
| b. to raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality, etc.; elevate | ||
| c. to make (a hole, tunnel, etc.) by removing material. |
| ______ | 8. | excerpt |
| a. to call up; cause to appear; summon | ||
| b. to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings. | ||
| c. to take or select passages from (a book, film, or the like); abridge by choosing representative sections. |
| ______ | 9. | exotic |
| a. serving as an illustration or specimen; illustrative; typical | ||
| b. of a uniquely new or experimental nature | ||
| c. stated fully, clearly, and without equivocation. | ||
| d. to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate. |
| ______ | 10. | evolve |
| a. to come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution | ||
| b. to increase the painfulness or severity of (illness, suffering, hard feelings, or the like); aggravate. | ||
| c. to cut off from membership or relations | ||
| d. definite and unreserved in expression; outspoken |
| ______ | 11. | euphemism |
| a. the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | ||
| b. the act of exempting. | ||
| c. to remove (persons or things) from a place, as a dangerous place or disaster area, for reasons of safety or protection | ||
| d. the group of persons making such a journey |
| ______ | 12. | evaporate |
| a. of exceptional beauty or charm; delicately or finely made. | ||
| b. to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. | ||
| c. a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person. |
| ______ | 13. | exemplary |
| a. elusive or evanescent. | ||
| b. to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently. | ||
| c. serving as a typical example. |
| ______ | 14. | exorcise |
| a. serving to allow one to avoid, escape, or fail to perform something. | ||
| b. serving as a typical example. | ||
| c. to give off or emit, as odors or vapors. | ||
| d. to expel (a demon or evil spirit). |
| ______ | 15. | excise |
| a. a trip on a train, ship, etc., at a reduced rate | ||
| b. Brit. the branch of the civil service that collects excise taxes. | ||
| c. to call up; cause to appear; summon |
| ______ | 16. | exonerate |
| a. a spoken or written tribute, esp. to honor a dead person; high praise; formal commendation. | ||
| b. to free from blame; absolve; exculpate. | ||
| c. to develop gradually |
| ______ | 17. | exquisite |
| a. a passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like; extract. | ||
| b. to change from a liquid or solid state into vapor; pass off in vapor. | ||
| c. of exceptional beauty or charm; delicately or finely made. |
| ______ | 18. | explicit |
| a. tending or seeking to evade; characterized by evasion | ||
| b. fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated; leaving nothing merely implied; unequivocal | ||
| c. serving as an illustration or specimen; illustrative; typical |
| ______ | 19. | exact |
| a. tending to be meticulous; rigorous. | ||
| b. to make a hole or cavity in by digging or scooping out the interior portion. | ||
| c. serving as a typical example. | ||
| d. to expel (a demon or evil spirit). |
| ______ | 20. | excursion |
| a. diversion from the topic at hand; digression. | ||
| b. strikingly or intriguingly unusual. | ||
| c. to praise; extol | ||
| d. the word or expression so substituted. |
| ______ | 21. | expel |
| a. to drive or force out or away; discharge or eject | ||
| b. to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings. | ||
| c. to issue or dispatch (an official document). |
| ______ | 22. | evacuate |
| a. to dig (something buried, esp. a dead body) out of the earth; disinter. | ||
| b. a tax levied for a license to carry on certain employments, pursue certain sports, etc. | ||
| c. to leave, or remove citizens, soldiers, or the like from (a place), esp. for safety. |
| ______ | 23. | exhume |
| a. to call forth or bring out (an image, memory, response, or the like) in the mind or in action. | ||
| b. to praise; extol | ||
| c. of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence, as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry. | ||
| d. to revive or restore after neglect or a period of forgetting; bring to light |
| ______ | 24. | evoke |
| a. a short trip or outing to some place, usually for a special purpose and with the intention of a prompt return | ||
| b. to elicit or draw forth | ||
| c. admitting of no irregularity; undeviating. |
| ______ | 25. | expedite |
| a. deserving to be imitated or followed; commendable; admirable. | ||
| b. the expression so substituted | ||
| c. to issue or dispatch (an official document). | ||
| d. strikingly or intriguingly unusual. |