Have you ever been labelled as a ‘walking dictionary’? Or would like to be? Or maybe you just want to know a few incomprehensible words which you can throw suddenly into your conversation to impress your lecturers or your friends? Try this test and see how good your vocabulary is ... The worst that could happen is that you’ll learn a few new words!

1. Bedfellows n. – A: associates. B: borders. C: look-alikes. D: lazy helpers.
2. Capitulation (kuh PICH u LAY shun ) n. – A: stoppage. B: preservation. C: monetary transaction. D: surrender.
3. Capricious (Kuh PRISH us) adj. – A: large. B: playful. C: witty. D: unpredictable.
4. Counterpart n. – A: combination of two melodies. B: duplicate. C: substitute. D: difference.
5. Disarray (dis uh RAY) n. – A: anxiety B: defeat. C: confusion. D: destruction.
6. Disparity (dis PAR ih tee) n. – A: bitter unhappiness. B: inequality. C: distribution. D: carelessness.
7. Implicate v. – A: to put into action. B: show involvement. C: occur. D: perplex.
8. Improvise (IM pro vize) v. – A: protect. B: arrange. C: provide offhandedly. D: settle a dispute.
9. Inure (in YOOR) v. – A: to do without. B: make certain. C: bury. D: accustom.
10. Mien (MEEN) n. – A: likeness. B: curse. C: appearance. D: placement.
11. Muffle v. – A: to wrap. B: fail. C: Suffocate. D: deceive.
12. Ovation n. – A: applause. B: event. C: act of kindness. D: high point.
13. Overt adj. – A: typical. B: revealing. C: apparent. D: straightforward.
14. Persevere (PER sih VIR) v. – A: to establish. B: become a nuisance. C: encourage. D: difference.
15. Presumptive (pre ZUMP tiv) adj. – A: self-confident. B: probable. C: overcritical. D: prejudiced.
16. Rebut (rih BUT) v. – A: to criticized hardly. B: withdraw. C: accuse. D: prove false.
17. Recondite (rih KON dite) adj. – A: extremely odd. B: little known. C: aloof. D: hard-edged.
18. Subside v. – A: to yield. B: decrease. C: undermine. D: descend upon.
19. Temerity (tih MER ih tee) n. – A: fear. B: force. C: rashness. D: arrogance.
20. Temperate adj. – A: tardy. B: moderate. C: moody. D: angry.

Answers will be published in the next issue.

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