| Name _____________________________ | Date ___________________ |
| Multiple Choice |
| ______ | 1. | indefatigable |
| a. not subject to fatigue; untiring. | ||
| b. not conspicuous, noticeable, or prominent. | ||
| c. special respect, honor, or esteem, publicly displayed or expressed. |
| ______ | 2. | horizontal |
| a. any pleasant perfume or fragrance. | ||
| b. being in a prone or supine position; recumbent | ||
| c. artless; innocent; naive. | ||
| d. government by ecclesiastical rulers. |
| ______ | 3. | inflame |
| a. to institute or establish as something to be fulfilled or borne. | ||
| b. hard or impossible to reach, approach, or attain. | ||
| c. to arouse to a high degree of passion or feeling |
| ______ | 4. | impromptu |
| a. (of words) to signify or mean. | ||
| b. improvised; having the character of an improvisation. | ||
| c. to create or provide without preparation or practice, esp. in music, speech, or writing. |
| ______ | 5. | imperative |
| a. unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary | ||
| b. not suitable or fitting; out of place. | ||
| c. extremely important; urgent; unavoidable. |
| ______ | 6. | incongruous |
| a. to induct into office with formal ceremonies; install. | ||
| b. not consistent. | ||
| c. not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen | ||
| d. a person who has withdrawn from society to live a solitary, often religious life; recluse. |
| ______ | 7. | indistinguishable |
| a. insufficient or below standard. | ||
| b. made up of parts that differ from each other; dissimilar. (Cf. homogeneous.) | ||
| c. not readily perceived; imperceptible. |
| ______ | 8. | inadvertent |
| a. not planned or intended; unintentional. | ||
| b. not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions | ||
| c. hard or impossible to reach, approach, or attain. | ||
| d. inconsequent; illogical. |
| ______ | 9. | hostage |
| a. to take in as food; swallow. | ||
| b. someone held prisoner by one person or group in an attempt to persuade or force another person or group to satisfy certain conditions or meet certain demands. | ||
| c. the act or process of inducing. |
| ______ | 10. | immoderate |
| a. to involve or prove involvement of (someone or something) in an affair, situation, event, or series of events. | ||
| b. unfailing in effectiveness or operation; certain | ||
| c. to bring about or cause (a disruptive action). | ||
| d. not moderate; exceeding just or reasonable limits; excessive; extreme. |
| ______ | 11. | indecision |
| a. inability to decide. | ||
| b. the power or dominion of a hierarch. | ||
| c. not able to be deciphered. | ||
| d. the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc. |
| ______ | 12. | infiltrate |
| a. lacking skill or aptitude; incompetent. | ||
| b. to go into or through as though by filtering, esp. for destructive purposes. | ||
| c. of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding. |
| ______ | 13. | hypochondriac |
| a. to stir up the emotions of; excite. | ||
| b. to make incapable of motion or action. | ||
| c. indicating the area of the hypochondrium. | ||
| d. not capable of being heard; not audible. |
| ______ | 14. | inaudible |
| a. Aeron. to draw (foreign matter) into the inlet of a jet engine, often causing damage to the engine. | ||
| b. to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant. | ||
| c. an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface. | ||
| d. not audible; incapable of being heard. |
| ______ | 15. | homage |
| a. not proceeding to a conclusion or resolution. | ||
| b. an elite group that governs. | ||
| c. special respect, honor, or esteem, publicly displayed or expressed. |
| ______ | 16. | immaculate |
| a. to blend parts together or to include parts in a larger whole. | ||
| b. any pleasant perfume or fragrance. | ||
| c. free from moral blemish or impurity; pure; undefiled. |
| ______ | 17. | inadequate |
| a. to plant securely. | ||
| b. to provide pictures or drawings for (a book or other printed work). | ||
| c. not adequate or sufficient; inept or unsuitable. |
| ______ | 18. | image |
| a. without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling | ||
| b. to bring about or cause (a disruptive action). | ||
| c. not planned or intended; unintentional. | ||
| d. a mental picture. |
| ______ | 19. | inevitable |
| a. a precision tool with a mechanically rotated abrasive tip, for enlarging holes to precise dimensions. | ||
| b. unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary | ||
| c. to make less effective or valuable; diminish or damage. |
| ______ | 20. | imminent |
| a. to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder. | ||
| b. to keep (a limb or joint) from moving by putting in a cast or splint. | ||
| c. projecting or leaning forward; overhanging. | ||
| d. the practice of idealizing. |
| ______ | 21. | hyperbole |
| a. feeling or showing anger in response to something considered unjust or unworthy. | ||
| b. threatening to occur soon. | ||
| c. inability to decide. | ||
| d. obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| ______ | 22. | inertia |
| a. feeble or weak in body or health, esp. because of age; ailing. | ||
| b. to confiscate and retain (property or documentary evidence) in legal custody. | ||
| c. insufficient or below standard. | ||
| d. Physics. the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.an analogous property of a force |
| ______ | 23. | infidelity |
| a. unfaithfulness; disloyalty. | ||
| b. to force (oneself) on another or others. | ||
| c. not credible; hard to believe; unbelievable | ||
| d. making or leaving a permanent mark. |
| ______ | 24. | immeasurable |
| a. impossible to measure; without limit. | ||
| b. to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence | ||
| c. insufficient or below standard. |
| ______ | 25. | impound |
| a. a person or thing that is indispensable. | ||
| b. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as "to wait an eternity." Cf. litotes. | ||
| c. an act or the practice of such unfaithfulness. | ||
| d. to confiscate and retain (property or documentary evidence) in legal custody. |