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831. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "ribaldry"?
Such as mistake ribaldry for humour, will find no wit in his harmless conversation;....
a) scurrility b)vulgarity c)lewdness d)delicacy.
832. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "coeval"?
The short continuance of friendship among the vicious, is coeval only with mutual satisfaction.
a)coincident b)coetaneous c)contemporary d) temporary.
833. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "prude"?
A suit of mourning has transformed my coquet into a prude, and a new set of ribbands has given her younger sister more than natural vivacity.
a)modest b)virtuous c)righteous d)loquacious.
834. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "temporality"?
...I was careless of temporalities, and felt a secret pleasure in doing my duty without reward...
a) temporary nature b)secular possessions c)worldly possessions d)intransience.
835. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "disavow"?
"... If what you tell me be true, and if I am to be a beggar, it shall never make me a rascal, or induce me to disavow my principles. ..."
a)admit b)begrudge c)contradit d)deny
836. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "CALLOUS"?
The loss of fortune to myself alone would have been trifling; the only uneasiness I felt was for my family, who were to be humble without an education to render them callous to contempt.
a)hardened b)indifferent c)sensitive d)unconcerned.
837. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "repine"?
We are now poor, my fondlings, and wisdom bids us conform to our humble situation. Let us then, without repining, give up those splendours with which numbers are wretched, and seek in humbler circumstances that peace with which all may be happy.
a)agonize b)applaud c)bleed d)grumble.
838. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "ASSIDUITY"?
He observed that no virtue was able to resist his arts and assiduity, and that scarce a farmer's daughter within ten miles round but what had found him successful and faithless.
a)attention b)commitment c)indolence d)perseverance.
839. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "OBSTINACY"?
But what surprised me most was, that though he was a money-borrower, he defended his opinions with as much obstinacy as if he had been my patron.
a)doggedness b)indetermination c)stubbornness d)volition.
840. Identify the word which DOES NOT REFLECT a meaning near to "CONSUMMATE"?
I have heard Sir William Thornhill represented as one of the most generous, yet whimsical, men in the kingdom; a man of consumate benevolence.
a)absolute b)matchless c)mediocre d)unqualified.
