ENGLISH VOCAB.

1.    VILIFY

(1) Defame            (2) Perform

(3) Commend       (4) Communicate

2.    MOLLIFY

(1) Flatter              (2) Appease

(3) Sympathies     (4) Avenge

3.    PRATTLE

(1) Construct         (2) Loiter

(3) Chatter             (4) Meditate

4.    ERUDITE

(1) Strong              (2) Precious

5.    LUGUBRIOUS

(1) Consolatory     (2) Deceitful

(3) Sleek                (4) Mournful

6.    PETTIFOGGING

(1) Lenient             (2) Unimportant

(3) Stable              (4) Strong

7.    TROTH

(1) Ego                  (2) Faithful

(3) Colurist             (4) Disloyal

8.    INORDINATE

(1) Extraordinary   (2) Inanimate

(3) Subordinate     (4) Excessive

9.    EPISTLE

(1) Practice           (2) Sermon

(3) Note                 (4) Letter

10.   VINDICTIVE

(1) Strategic          (2) Triumphant

(3) Revengeful      (4) Demonstrative

ANSWERS:

1. (1)

Meaning:  If you are vilified by someone, they say or write very unpleasant things about you, so that people will have a low opinion of you

Example: He was vilified, hounded, and forced into exile by the FBI.

2. (2)

Meaning: If you mollify someone, you do or say something to make them less upset or angry.

Example: The investigation was undertaken primarily to mollify pressure groups.

3. (3)

Meaning: If you say that someone prattles on about something, you are criticizing them because they are talking a great deal without saying anything important.

Example: Archie, shut up, you are prattling.

4. (3)

Meaning: If you describe someone as erudite, you mean that they have or show great academic knowledge, you can also use erudite to describe something such as a book or a style of writing.

Example: He was never dull, always eruditeand well informed.

5. (4)

Meaning: If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful.

Example: a tall, thin man with a along and lugubrious face.

6. (2)

Meaning: You can describe an action or situation as pettifogging when you think that unnecessary attention is being paid to unimportant, boring details

Example: … pettifogging bureaucratic interference.

7. (2)

Meaning:  loyalty or undertaking

Example: specially in marriage

8. (4)

Meaning: If you describe something as inordinate, you are emphasizing that it is unusually or excessively great in amount or degree.

Example: They spend an inordinate amount of time talking.

9. (4)

Meaning: An epistle is a letter.

10. (3)

Meaning:  If you say that someone is vindictive, you are critical of them because they deliberately try to upset or cause trouble for someone who they think has done them harm,

Example:  a vindictive woman desperate for revenge against the man who loved and left her.