Vocabulary Test Part 1

A niche is an architectural term for a shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament.

Graft refers to the acquisition of money, gain, or advantage by dishonest, unfair, or illegal means, especially through the abuse of one's position or influence in politics or business.

A homonym is a word with the same spelling and pronunciation as another but different meaning. Homophonic has sound-alike words (spelling differs), humidor stores cigars, and hybrid is mixed ancestry.

Irrelevant means not connected with or relevant to something; it describes information that is not to the point.

Headgear is any kind of covering for the head. It can be or cannot be defensive e.g turba/hat etc. They are not defensive headgear. But helmet is a protective covering for the head...e.g the headpiece of armour.

Erratum is an error in printing or writing, from Latin meaning 'error'. Omission is leaving out, scribble is hasty writing, and scramble is to mix confusedly.

Fundamentalism refers to blind adherence to religious principles. Fanaticism is excessive zeal, bigotry is intolerance, and iconoclasm is destroying religious images.

Uxoricide is the act of killing one's wife. The suffix '-cide' denotes an act of killing.

Chronology is the science of arranging events in time order and determining their dates. History is the study of past events, graphology studies handwriting, and cosmology studies the universe.

Sororicide is the act of killing one's sister. The root 'soror' is Latin for sister.

A frump is a person, typically a woman, who is considered old-fashioned, dowdy, or unattractive in dress and appearance.

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

Bibliomania is an obsessive desire to collect or possess books, often to an extreme degree.

Fatalist believes that all events are predetermined and inevitable. Palmist reads palms, orthodox follows traditional beliefs, and contemporary means modern or current.

Belligerent means nations at war. Bellicose means warlike (can apply to individuals), 'war like' is incorrectly spelled, and apartheid is racial segregation.

Anemology is the scientific study of wind.

Bureaucracy is a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.

Ideology is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy, often involving visionary speculation.

An eccentric is a person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behavior.

Embryology is the branch of biology and medicine concerned with the study of embryos and their development.

A dilettante is a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge, often for amusement.

A censer is a container, usually a vessel, in which incense is burned, typically during religious ceremonies.

Invincible means too powerful to be defeated or overcome, which matches the definition exactly. Infalliable (misspelled, should be infallible) means unable to make mistakes, incorrigible means unable to be corrected, and incompetent means lacking skill.

Cinerama is a widescreen process that uses three synchronized projectors to create a panoramic image, giving the illusion of depth or being three-dimensional.