Wednesday, 11 November 2015

VA 02

1.   facet (n.):
      Extravagance or enormity. 
      An incumbent of a given office previous to another. 
      Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing. 
      One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem. 
2.   negation (n.):
      Looks or acts expressing amused contempt. 
      Escape. 
      The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition. 
      A stocking. 
3.   scrupulous (adj.):
      Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacredthings. 
      Having many shapes, or appearances. 
      Evil. 
      Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong. 
4.   sensorium (n.):
      A condensed form as of a book or play. 
      The sensory apparatus. 
      An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise. 
      Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage. 
5.   niggardly (adj.):
      Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use) 
      Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone. 
      Recovering health after sickness. 
      Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned. 
6.   nutritive (adj.):
      Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression. 
      Having nutritious properties. 
      Common to all the world. 
      Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation. 
7.   influence (n.):
      An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do someparticular act. 
      Ability to sway the will of another. 
      A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife. 
      A legislator. 
8.   diplomacy (n.):
      A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act. 
      A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oraltranslation. 
      Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or insocial matters. 
      The close of a narrative or dramatic poem. 
9.   ache (v.):
      To look forward to as certain or probable. 
      To capture again. 
      To be in pain or distress. 
      To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geologicalpurposes. 
10.   donee (n.):
      A person to whom a donation is made. 
      Conversation. 
      Any place of exit. 
      a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated ordistorted. 


1. facet
     exorbitance: Extravagance or enormity. 
     predecessor: An incumbent of a given office previous to another. 
     tact: Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing. 
     Correct Answer: facet: One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem. 
2. negation
     ridicule: Looks or acts expressing amused contempt. 
     evasion: Escape. 
     Correct Answer: negation: The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition. 
     hosiery: A stocking. 
3. scrupulous
     irreverential: Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacredthings. 
     multiform: Having many shapes, or appearances. 
     sinister: Evil. 
     Correct Answer: scrupulous: Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong. 
4. sensorium
     abridgment: A condensed form as of a book or play. 
     Correct Answer: sensorium: The sensory apparatus. 
     syndicate: An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise. 
     stratagem: Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage. 
5. niggardly
     Correct Answer: niggardly: Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use) 
     penitential: Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone. 
     convalescent: Recovering health after sickness. 
     usurious: Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned. 
6. nutritive
     curt: Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression. 
     Correct Answer: nutritive: Having nutritious properties. 
     cosmopolitan: Common to all the world. 
     declarative: Containing a formal, positive, or explicit statement or affirmation. 
7. influence
     recognizance: An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do someparticular act. 
     Correct Answer: influence: Ability to sway the will of another. 
     imbroglio: A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife. 
     lawmaker: A legislator. 
8. diplomacy
     operetta: A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act. 
     interpreter: A person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oraltranslation. 
     Correct Answer: diplomacy: Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or insocial matters. 
     epilogue: The close of a narrative or dramatic poem. 
9. ache
     expect: To look forward to as certain or probable. 
     recapture: To capture again. 
     Correct Answer: ache: To be in pain or distress. 
     reconnoiter: To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geologicalpurposes. 
10. donee
     Correct Answer: donee: A person to whom a donation is made. 
     colloquy: Conversation. 
     egress: Any place of exit. 
     caricature: a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated ordistorted.



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