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KEY: A correct answer counts one point. Score your points for each part of the test, then
add for a total.

I
1–to write, 2–equal, 3–bad, evil, 4–to say or tell, 5–to wish, 6–to do or make, 7–good, well,
8–faith, 9–to give, 10–night, 11–horse, 12–balance, pound, 13–to be silent, 14–to speak, 15–

alone, 16–belly, 17–big, large, great, 18–word, 19–to roll, 20–mind, 21–back, 22–voice, 23–
to bear or carry, 24–to walk, 25–sleep

Your score: __________________

II
1–to show, 2–man, male, 3–father, 4–name, 5–the same, 6–sound, 7–to rule, 8–mother, 9–to
kill, killing, 10–person, 11–wife, 12–husband, 13– re, 14–God, 15–to live, 16–to believe,
17–to pierce sharply, 18–one, 19–to tremble, 20–spark, 21–city, 22–country (countryside),

23–knowledge, 24–all, 25–all

Your score: __________________

III
1–O, 2–S, 3–O, 4–O, 5–S, 6–O, 7–O, 8–S, 9–S, 10–O, 11–O, 12–O, 13–O, 14–O, 15–O, 16–O,
17–O, 18–S, 19–O, 20–S

Your score: __________________

IV

1–e, 2–b, 3–g, 4–d, 5–i, 6–j, 7–a, 8–h, 9–f, 10–c

Your score : __________________

V
1–c, 2–g, 3–e, 4–j, 5–f, 6–h, 7–a, 8–d, 9–b, 10–i

Your score: __________________

VI
1–obviate, 2–adulate, 3–malign, 4–laconic, 5–banal, 6–verbatim, 7–genocide, 8–patrimony,
9–polytheism, 10–militant, 11–bona de, 12–garrulous, 13–soliloquize, 14–magnum opus,

15–magnanimous, 16–ambulatory, 17–insomnia, 18–acrophobia, 19–fratricide, 20–
antonymous, 21–joie de vivre, 22–devitalize, 23–naïveté, 24–punctilious, 25–perspicuous,
26–circumspect, 27–retrospect, 28–unanimous, 29–stoical, 30–interurban

Your score: __________________

Your total score: __________________