Make Choice Of The Concise Meaning In Each Word Usage
Temporize, delay, defer, tarry, balk, hedge, stall, procrastinate, equivocate, prevaricate
1. Temporize means:
- a. Cause trouble
- b. Put off to meet a circumstance
- c. Extend further
- d. Build solidly
2. Delay means:
- a. Distort intentionally
- b. Roar up swiftly
- c. Make slower than expected
- Console mildly
3. Defer means:
- a. Put off to face up to opposition
- b. Break off connection
- c. Hold up to assault
- d. Bring out failure
4. Tarry means:
- a. Be late due to lingering
- b. Be tardy in intention
- c. Remain working in effort
- d. All are correct
5. Balk means:
- a. Ready to go with
- b. Slow to go with
- c. Hesitant to accept
- d. Sure to get along
6. Hedge means:
- a. Go on in defense
- b. Go back in retreat
- c. Go along in urgency
- d. Go up to the highest
7. Stall means:
- a. Stop for an obstacle
- b. Withstand against trouble
- c. Make no progress by accident
- d. All are correct
8. Procrastinate means:
- a. Be late to meeting a chance
- b. Be slow to deal with
- c. Be tardy to go on
- d. All are correct
9. Equivocate means:
- a. Avoid duty by malingering
- b. Escape a failure by leaving
- c. Shun the truth in intention
- d. Avert a project by withdrawal
10. Prevaricate means:
a. Evade in speaking
b. Not answering directly
c. Misleading in expression
d. All are correct
ANSWERS: 1. b 2. c 3. a 4. d 5.c 6. a 7. d 8. a 9. c 10. d
Eulogize, panegyrize, lionize, idolize, praise, extol, exalt, laud, applaud, compliment, commend
- Eulogize means:
- Preach highly in speech
- Praise highly in speech
- Preserve safely in cache
- Promise quickly in recession
- Panegyrize means:
- Speak in praise
- Write in praise
- State in praise
- All are correct
- Lionize means:
- Give a lot of praise
- Give a lot of support
- Give a lot of public attention
- Give a lot of irony
- Praise
- Ensure safety
- Expire on time
- Express admiration
- Extend so far
- Extol means:
- Praise enthusiastically
- Give so much approval
- Raise higher words of praise
- All are correct
- Exalt means:
- Praise in exaggeration
- Give boastful words of praise
- Praise to the skies
- All are correct
- Laud means:
- Praise in mass media
- Praise in public manner
- Praise in public context
- All are correct
- Applaud means:
- Give praise by singing
- Give praise by writing
- Give praise by speaking
- Give praise by clapping
- Compliment means:
- Give respectful recognition
- Give high approval
- Give serious statement
- Give so high admiration
- Commend means:
- Praise officially
- Praise secretly
- Praise zealously
- Praise boastfully