Miscellaneous Vocabulary (M) MCQs

To study hard, usually in preparation for a test.

A prize given to make fun of the loser in a contest or game.

A practical joke.

A place where valuables are stored, especially the clothes, linen, etc., that a woman might store in preparation for her marriage.

An approach to organisation or planning that is built up from basic details rather than from a guiding principal or theory.

To earn money, especially money for one's family; to be successful, especially financially successful.

Sweep a woman off her feet with a romantic gesture.

To take turns.

In a superior or advantageous position.

Horse dung.

Aggressively argumentative, and sometimes violent, behaviour indulged in by drivers when annoyed by other road users' actions.

To take from one merely to give to another; to discharge one debt by incurring another.

I see you are ready and anxious to depart.

"I will kill you and am prepared to be hanged as a consequence", or "I will swing a punch at you".

Display your feelings openly, for all to see.

A person who loves or collects books.

Sentimental longing for things that are past.

No amount of persuasion can make him take decision to resign his office for he has burnt his boats.

Someone who copies another person's work or action.

The procedures that will be followed to do something.

Common, easy to get and of little value.

A translation that is not totally accurate.

Much, a lot.

The skill to make plants grow.

Money paid illegally for favourable treatment.

A serious fight or argument.

A person who acts as if he or she knows everything.

An ambiguous compliment interpreted as offensive.

Someone who performs messenger services, an errand boy.

A long distance or trip.

An escape with little chance of error.

A complete change, a fresh start, another chance.

A person who has become much better.

A job with regular and normal hours.

A person who makes a reservation for something and then neither comes nor cancels it.

A situation where there is no satisfactory solution.

An unfair treatment.

A car driver who uses more than his share of road.

An approximate estimate/guess.

There is going to be trouble or a storm is coming.

Someone who is new and unknown to a person/place/thing.

Something that is sure to happen.

Specially for everyone and everything.

Refer to something indirectly, by suggestion.

The false assignment of an event, person, scene or language to a time when the event or thing did not exist.

As if a group were one person.

In response to the request made.

The way something is.

A short romance, typically in verse, usually involving some element of the supernatural.

Posh society girls with un-posh tastes.

In the way.

Foolish.

Can easily fix things.

A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.

An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the minimum necessary for a free-enterprise system to operate according to its own economic laws.

A very substantial victory (usually in an election).

The members of a group and not the leader, regular soldiers and not the officers.

To be assured, to be certain.

To lie dead peacefully for eternity.

Stubborn, impatient, restless.

To change a number to the next higher or lower whole number.

A meeting held after a larger meeting.

To be safe/whole/healthy.

To be better than everything.

A power to know or feel things other than by sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch.

To advertise anything, everything and all sorts in between through the use of hand-naff signals and dubbed sound effects.

Social rank, occupation.

Damage as a result of ordinary use.

Strength of mind.

A lot of talk about little things.

Cheap and overly sensational newspaper writing.

The exact time when an attack or other military action will start.

Someone who makes a wise judgement about something that has previously proven difficult to resolve.

Someone who is basically good hearted but lacking social graces and respect for the law.

Advertising slogan for De Beers' diamonds.

A person, usually a man, who comes to the aid of another, usually a woman, in a gallant and courteous manner.

On the menu, with each dish priced.

Fashionable.

Nonsense, rubbish.

The English (and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation).

Something that requires little mental effort or intelligence to perform or understand.

The notion that everything should have a place to be stored in and that it should be tidily returned there when not in use.

A frustrated curse on both sides of an argument.

From the previous.

A radical, and apparently mystical, change.

A stimulus.

A welcome visitor - someone you are glad to see.

Someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Join a conversation in which another is speaking continually and leaving little opportunity for others.

Change direction.

Openly - without any trickery.

The lack of something increases the desire for it.

An act which is accepted legally as being outside human control.

Behave foolishly.

A genre of popular fiction.

'To aid memory'.

Italian - literally 'in the fresh'.

In a state of confusion and disorder.

Not at any price.

A burden which some unfortunate person has to carry.

The notion that for every wrong done there should be a compensating measure of justice.

A horrible year.

A stance, with the arms on the hips and elbows turned outwards.

Pertaining to, or having an interest in, the arts - often pretentiously and affectedly so.

Feelings of depression or anxiety, experienced by some mothers following childbirth.

Place a bet on all the horses in a race, except one.

A return to previously held values of decency.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.

Someone or something that disappoints expectations.

A day on which one's hair seems unmanageable.

The difference between the value of the imports and exports that a nation makes.

Completely bald.

A 20th century slang term, meaning wife.

Said of something or someone so unappealing that one wouldn't want to approach near.

Insane; intensely mad.

Making a mistake or a false assumption in something you are trying to achieve.

General mayhem; a free-for-all fight.

Ostensibly, a warning that something dangerous is imminent.

Expression of excitement when seeing the object of one's romantic affect.

A person's eyes; more recently, the life force or consciousness.

Physical beauty is superficial.

To be at someone's beck and call is to be entirely subservient to them; to be responsive to their slightest request.

Excellent - the highest quality.

With a furrowed or prominent brow, or worried expression.

In a very short time; suddenly.

An unfair, underhand tactic.

Common or lowly.

Careful - not taking any chances.

My husband or my wife.

Literal meaning (it means exactly what it says)

Fail, due to being unable to choose between two alternatives.

The most important person.

Nickname for New Orleans, USA, referring to the easy-going, laid back attitude to life that jazz musicians and local residents indulge in there.

An important person.

To the limit of one's efforts - to the last extremity.

Pitch black.

Interactions that occur between black people, notably crime that is perpetrated by one black person against another.

An oath, alluding to mayhem and bloodshed.

Tiresome, stubborn and obstructive.

Something that spoils the view or ruins a previously comfortable situation.

Used to describe the means of obtaining a successful result.

A sexually explicit romantic novel; usually in a historical setting and always with a plot involving the seduction of the heroine.

Surfing (a.k.a.

To study hard, usually in preparation for a test.

A prize given to make fun of the loser in a contest or game.

A practical joke.

A place where valuables are stored, especially the clothes, linen, etc., that a woman might store in preparation for her marriage.

An approach to organisation or planning that is built up from basic details rather than from a guiding principal or theory.

To earn money, especially money for one's family; to be successful, especially financially successful.

Sweep a woman off her feet with a romantic gesture.

To take turns.

In a superior or advantageous position.

A sales model that utilizes both traditional stores (bricks) and Internet trading (clicks).

Having wide hips or buttocks.

Entirely brown.

The paying audience at a venue with seating, usually a theatre or cinema.

Pregnant.

An obsessive and dangerous female, in pursuit of a lover who has spurned her.

To be trapped by an opponent, in a position one can't easily escape from.

Narrowly; barely.

The appeal of nature in the raw.

The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted during an industrial or domestic process; a measure of how that process contributes toward global warming.

Someone who is skilful at playing or manipulating cards, or one who makes a living by cheating at cards.

Euphemism for being bankrupt or in debt.

Having free rein to choose whatever course of action you want.

Disclose a secret.

In a superior or advantageous position.

To be caught in the act of committing a misdemeanour, with the evidence there for all to see.

The proverb has a literal meaning although the 'weakest link' referred to is figurative and usually applies to a person or technical feature rather than a link of an actual chain.

A form of sofa with a backrest at one end only.

A publicity campaign, usually by politicians, that attempts to attract supporters by emphasizing their charisma or trustworthiness.

A jokey way of saying expensive.

The literal translation from French is "look for the woman".

A scene of disorder; a ruin; a mess.

Casual smalltalk or gossip.

Crammed so tightly together as to prevent movement.

Foolish.

Can easily fix things.

A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.

A temperamental outburst; a tantrum.

Live in the present, not the past.

Get off to a brisk and successful start.

Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous.

Hold on; be patient.

Having a passionate nature, or being inclined to quick temper.

Freshly printed.

In close pursuit of someone/something, or immediately after some event.

A nonsense phrase with no real meaning as such, although it also sometimes used as a jovial greeting.

Literal meaning - it is especially painful to raise an ungrateful child.

In secret; in a clandestine manner.

I see you are ready and anxious to depart.

"I will kill you and am prepared to be hanged as a consequence", or "I will swing a punch at you".

Display your feelings openly, for all to see.

To have 'another think coming' is to be greatly mistaken.

Eager; ready to participate.

(Stumped means stuck) unable to proceed, often regarding being confounded by some intellectual puzzle.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.

Laughing uproariously.

Virtually secured - as good as in one's possession.