Miscellaneous Vocabulary (W) MCQs

A false and exaggerated belief about one's status or importance.

Heroic daring.

A short growth of beard, aimed to affect a rugged masculine or deliberately unkempt appearance.

An irrevocable choice has been made.

A person who holds stubbornly to a minority view, in defiance of the circumstances.

This term is usually part of 'a fine kettle of fish', 'a pretty kettle of fish' etc, which mean 'a muddle or awkward state of affairs'.

Spiteful and mean spirited.

A mess or muddle.

Dressed or displayed in an ostentatiously smart manner.

A very long time.

Don't bother to pursue your application further.

Don't change your leader or your basic position when part-way through a campaign or a project.

'No points' - the lowest possible score awarded to performers in the Eurovision Song Contest.

This is the rebuke levelled at the disciples of Christ, when seeming to doubt his divinity.

God's body.

'No points' - the lowest possible score awarded to performers in the Eurovision Song Contest.

This is the rebuke levelled at the disciples of Christ, when seeming to doubt his divinity.

God's body.

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.

Disinherited.

Get to the point - leaving out unnecessary preamble.

To wait upon someone in an overly assiduous or sycophantic manner.

Something given in return for an item of equivalent value - like tit for tat.

Talk.

A common rabble - the hoi polloi.

A reference to the sometimes violent natural world, in which predatory animals unsentimentally cover their teeth and claws with the blood of their prey as they kill and devour them.

In earlier times a church festival or saint's day; more recently, any special day.

A thing which has neither rhyme nor reason makes no sense, from either a poetic or logical standpoint.

The highest quality.

The supposed inscription at the entrance to Hell.

Change direction.

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.

Insane; intensely mad.

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

An infirm or failing person or thing - unable to properly function.

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.

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.

Keep quiet - say nothing.

Literal meaning.

Excellent - the highest quality.

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.