Q.1: troublesome
a) Protective.
b) To serve as a characteristic example of.
c) Despotic.
d) Burdensome.

Q.2: twinge
a) Being present everywhere.
b) A darting momentary local pain.
c) Inexplicable.
d) Unendurable.

Q.3: unbearable
a) The art of anointing as with oil.
b) Unendurable.
c) To be the ground or support of.
d) To sell at a lower price than.

Q.4: ungainly
a) Clumsy.
b) To put into confusion.
c) Unseasonable.
d) To separate.

Q.5: utility
a) Fitness for some desirable practical purpose.
b) A parting address.
c) Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
d) Modification.

Q.6: verdant
a) A description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion.
b) A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
c) Green with vegetation.
d) Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.

Q.7: volition
a) Capable of receiving injuries.
b) Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
c) An act or exercise of will.
d) Fatiguing.

Q.8: abed
a) Competent for physical service.
b) Very hateful.
c) In bed; on a bed.
d) To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles.

Q.9: acidify
a) Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor.
b) Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
c) To change into acid.
d) Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.

Q.10: akin
a) Of similar nature or qualities.
b) An assumed name.
c) To cause to turn away.
d) To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court.

Q.11: annihilate
a) To destroy absolutely.
b) To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
c) Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
d) Hard coal.

Q.12: Arthurian
a) Pale.
b) An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach.
c) Pertaining to King Arthur, the real or legendary hero of British poetic story.
d) To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid).

Q.13: befog
a) A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
b) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.
c) To confuse.
d) Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.

Q.14: buffoonery
a) Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
b) An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
c) To hurry.
d) A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose.

Q.15: clarify
a) To render intelligible.
b) To treat as a baby or an invalid.
c) Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
d) To stick together.

Q.16: conscript
a) One who entrusts.
b) The state or quality of being in accord with.
c) To force into military service.
d) Panic.

Q.17: culprit
a) To cut off or cut short.
b) Exhibiting moral skepticism.
c) A guilty person.
d) Fearless.

Q.18: despotism
a) Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.
b) Malicious mischief.
c) To invent.
d) To distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena.

Q.19: dolesome
a) Melancholy.
b) A person to whom a donation is made.
c) One of a pair of like things.
d) In the British army, a cavalryman.

Q.20: epigram
a) A species of lyric poems.
b) A state of balance.
c) A pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation.
d) Irregular.