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1.Deerstalker
a) Antlers of a deer
b) A soft cloth cap
c) An animal
d) A deflector
1. Pyx
a) A tall erected structure
b) To flinch
c) Holy vessel
d) A heap of combustible
2. Demerara
a) large bulbous bottle
b) to separate
c) termination
d) light brown cane sugar
3. Narcissism
a) Excess interest in oneself
b) Patriotism
c) Criticism
d) Deeply religious
4. Trammel
a) Hiking gear
b) Impediment to movement
c) Written copy
d) Rear edge of an aircraft
5. Jointure
a) Person who makes furniture
b) Write briefly or hastily
c) A good natured or teasing joke
d) Estate settled on the wife for the
period she survives her husband
6. Suffragette
a) Right to voting
b) A woman seeking the right to
vote
c) A window awning
d) A person debarred from voing
7. Quadragessima
a) 4-sided plane figure
b) 4 children born at one birth
c) A motorcycle with 4 large tyres
d) The first Sunday in lent
8. Pimiento
a) Small pill
b) A memento
c) A red pepper
d) A small rabbit like animal
9. Parlous
a) Hard to deal with
b) A type of ham
c) A rector
d) A biennial herb
10. Pinnacle
a) Climax
b) Pinprick
c) Devout
d) Blunt tool resembling scissors
11. Pfenning
a) Alcoholic drink
b) Light 4-wheeled open carriage
c) A ghost
d) German monetary unit
12. Guttersnipe
a) A well from which oil flows
b) To mutilate
c) A street urchin
d) To swing across
13. Polder
a) A pink folder
b) Piece of land reclaimed from the
sea
c) Small and cramped
d) A splendid display
14. Escalope
a) Piece of reckless behavior
b) Thin slice of meat without bone
c) Increase or develop
d) Prisoner who has escaped
15. Gunwale
a) Person who imports firearms
illegally
b) A shot fired from a gun
c) Person who sells and repair
firearms
d) Upper edge on the side of a ship
16. Patisserie
a) Dialect in a region
b) Rank of a tribal patriarch
c) Male head of a family
d) Shop where pastries are made
and sold
17. Marionette
a) Elizabethan period dress
b) Knife attached to a gun
c) Puppet worked by strings
d) A ballet dance
18. Peroration
a) Fastidious
b) Subject to hostility
c) To make pores
d) Concluding part of a speech
19. Scurrilous
a) Flying or running straight
b) Particular about cleanliness
c) Person grossly or indirectly
abusive
d) Notable or unexpected
information
20. Camaraderie means
a) an ancient Egyptian form of art
b) enmity between two nations
c) friendship among the people who
work together
d) cruelty towards animals
Mr. Rajat Tiku
Director, GCC Queen’s Academy of
English Language
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