VOCABULARY QUIZ

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VOCABULARY QUIZ

1. CREPUSCULAR [23:69]

a. made of corrugated plastic
b. of the twilight
c. afflicted with boils
d. flat, resembling a pancake

2. DROSOPHILA [6:60]

a. pathological love of sleep
b. the black rat
c. the fruit fly
d. wife of the Roman emperor Agricola

3. LAMBENT [10:40]

a. curving towards a fixed position
b. softly radiant
c. cruciform device on coat of arms
d. owing money

4. LOGE [2:32]

a. box in an opera house
b. toll payable on crossing frontiers
c. home of the beaver
d. gangway to a barge

5. PAMYAT [19:70]

a. hat made of camel-hair
b. neo-Nazi faction
c. horse-droving tribe in Kazakhstan
d. stewed root vegetables

6. PROVODNIK [4:6]

1. guerrilla soldier
2. attendant on a train
3. hotel concierge
4. person in charge of a collectivist farm

7. RIMED [11:40]

a. encrusted, as if with hoar-frost
b. worn to a smooth surface
c. armour-plated
d. made famous in verse

8. PILASTER [23.33]

a. mechanical device to show the phases of the moon
b. rectangular column projecting from a wall
c. bolt for coupling railway carriages
d. splint

9. STYGIAN [13:105]

a. living like a pig
b. of the Greek province Stygia
c. marked with a deformity or blemish
d. dark and gloomy

10. YORICK [1:67]

a. dead jester in Hamlet
b. vain courtier in King Lear
c. murderous knight in Ivanhoe
d. unhappy farmer in Tess of the d'Urbervilles