Vocabulary Test 15
Directions: Choose the right word from the box and write for each question that best fits the description provided.
1. servilely attentive, fawning
2. unchaste, lewd, licentious, wilfully malicious
3. tearfully or excessively sentimental
4. to attribute to one’s actions to rational and creditable motives
5. to cater to base desires
6. to direct energy from its primitive and destructive aim to one that is culturally or ethically higher and therefore socially acceptable
7. preferring the company of others to solitude
8. practicing extreme self-denial
9. spent, exhausted, barren of energy
10. enjoyed by one person through his sympathetic but indirect participation in the experience of another person, substitutional
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the right word from the box given below.
11. Marie is too to be happy without friends.
12. The waiter bowed to every wealthy customer who came in the restaurant.
13. His dissipated life has sapped his ambition and health and made him
14. The motion picture was so sickeningly
15. Mothers feel a pleasure in their children’s accomplishments.
16. Be honest with yourself. Don’t try to what you are doing.
17. He lived the life of an for he abhorred self-indulgence and luxury.
18. The dishonest politician to the greed and thoughtlessness of the mob.
19. Some say that all great art is a of primitive instincts.
20. She led a fruitless, , uncontrolled life.
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