Word Power Made Easy - Norman Lewis 2014
17 How to check your progress
Part three Finishing with a feeling of complete success
Comprehensive Test III
Session 47
IV—matching
Words
1. alleviating
2. cavalier (adj.)
3. vacillating
4. obsequious
5. querulous
6. obstreperous
7. innocuous
8. cadaverous
9. dolorous
10. noxious
Definitions
a. excessively polite or servile
b. gaunt, corpselike
c. noisy
d. poisonous
e. highhanded
f. sad
g. nagging; complaining
h. harmless
i. soothing
j. constantly changing one’s mind
V—more matching
1. condolence
2. decadent
3. levity
4. levitation
5. surreptitious
6. cacophony
7. reincarnation
8. omnivorous
9. impotence
10. bovine
a. a rising into the air
b. harsh sound
c. powerlessness
d. a return to life in a new form
e. devouring all; eating everything
f. expression of sympathy
g. cowlike; phlegmatic; stolid
h. morally deteriorating
i. joking
j. stealthy; secret
VI—recall a word
1. lionlike
2. doglike
3. catlike
4. piglike
5. foxlike
6. bearlike
7. horselike
8. all-powerful
9. in the flesh
10. to stagnate
11. secret
12. meat-eating (adj.)
13. lasting a very short time
14. stingy; tight-fisted
15. feeling contradictory ways at the same time (adj.)
16. speech of praise
17. a feeling of well-being, both physical and emotional
18. statement intended to allay pain or anxiety
19. mercy death
20. science of speech sounds
21. all-powerful
22. to give in; to stop resisting
23. a working together for greater effect
24. to behead
25. relating to, pertaining to, or involving money (adj.)
26. harmless
27. tending to drink a lot (adj.)
28. to express sympathy; to share suffering, pain, or grief (with)
29. snobbish; contemptuous; haughty; arrogant
30. mounted soldiers
1. L ...
2. C ...
3. F ...
4. P ...
5. V ...
6. U ...
7. E ...
8. О ...
9. I ...
10. V ...
11. C ...
12. C ...
13. E ...
14. P ... or P ...
15. A ...
16. E ...
17. E ...
18. A ...
19._ E ...
20. P ...
21. О ...
22. C ...
23. S ... or S ...
24. D ...
25. P ...
26. I ...
27. В ...
28. C ... or C ...
29. S ...
30. C ...
Key: A correct answer counts one point. Score your points for each part of the test, then add for a total.
I
1-to flow, 2-voice, 3-flat, broad, 4-cat, 5-fish, 6-a return, 7-harsh, bad, ugly, 8-flesh, 9-to devour, 10-all, 11-powerful, 12-everywhere, 13-wolf, 14-to suffer, grieve, 15-pig, 16-death, 17-dog, 18-fox, 19-pain, 20-pain, 21-word, speech, 22-knowing, 23-bear, 24-sound, 25-want, neediness
Your score: ...
II
1-nerve, 2-work, 3-to deny, 4-head, 5-little head, chapter heading, 6-to live and grow, 7-to copy, 8-like, similar, 9-light, 10-innermost, 11-wretched, 12-to swing back and forth, 13-both, 14-a swing, 15-to follow, 16-to complain, 17-eyelid, 18-above, 19-to make a noise, 20-cattle, 21-horse, 22-(inferior) horse, 23-to speak, 24-to fall, 25-to vanish
Your score: ...
III
1-O, 2-S, 3-S, 4—S, 5-O, 6-S, 7-O, 8-O, 9-S, 10-S, 11-S, 12-O,13-S, 14-O,15-S, 16-S, 17-S, 18-O,19-O, 20-S
Your score: ...
IV
1-i, 2-e, 3-j, 4-a, 5-g, 6-c, 7-h, 8-b, 9-f, 10-d
Your score: ...
V
1-f, 2-h, 3-i, 4-a, 5-j, 6-b, 7-d, 8-e, 9-c, 10-g
Your score: ...
VI
1-leonine, 2-canine, 3-feline, 4-porcine, 5-vulpine, 6-ursine, 7-equine, 8-omnipotent, 9-incarnate, 10-vegetate, 11-clandes- tine, 12-camivorous, 13-ephemeral, 14-penurious or parsimonious, 15-ambivalent, 16-eulogy, 17-euphoria, 18-anodyne, 19-euthanasia, 20-phonetics, 21-omnipotent, 22-capitulate, 23-synergism or synergy, 24-decapitate, 25-pecuniary, 26-in- nocuous, 27-bibulous, 28-condole or commiserate, 29-supercilious, 30-cavalry
Your score: ...
Your total score: ...
Significance of Your Total Score:
100-120: Masterly
80-99: Good
65-79: Average
50-64: Barely acceptable
35-49: Poor
0-34: Terrible!
Record your score in the appropriate space below as well as your scores from Chapters 8 and 13. You will then have a comparison ehart of all three achievement tests.
Scores
TEST I (Chapter 8): ... out of 120.
TEST II (Chapter 13): ... out of 120.
TEST III (Chapter 17): ... out of 120.
(End of Session 47)