The following quiz is designed to test your English vocabulary. Each word has four choices with one choice closely matching to its meaning. Choose the closest matching choice. Answers are given at the end of the quiz.
Enjoy wordabbling.
1. Attire
a) Dress or clothes
b) Skinny
c) Shiny and metallic
d) None of the above
2. Bumptious
a) Naïve lad
b) Rustic bum
c) Offensively self-assertive
d) None of the above
3. Dappled
a) Mottled
b) Spotted with different tones
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
4. Flirtable
a) Ready to flirt
b) Wanton
c) Open and accepting
d) None of the above
5. Glasnost
a) Soviet policy of openness
b) Communist policy of openness
c) An ideology
d) None of the above
6. Hasidism
a) Related to a Jewish sect
b) Related to Sufi sect
c) Related to a Christian sect
d) None of the above
7. Measly
a) Meager
b) Abundant
c) Related to a disease
d) None of the above
8. Patricide
a) Act of killing one’s own sister
b) Act of killing one’s own brother
c) Act of killing one’s own mother
d) None of the above
9. Sallow
a) Of a sickly yellowish color
b) Healthy
c) A type of arboreal bird
d) None of the above
10. Tamas (Sanskrit)
a) Darkness
b) Lightness
c) Anger and voilent
d) None of the above
Answers:
1. (a) 2. (c) 3. (c) 4. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (a) 8 (d) 9. (a) 10 (a)
Your Score:
8-10 Excellent
5-7 Good
1-4 Need improvement
