600+ Rhymes For PRELIMINARY-EXAM

• a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge

• a master's degree in arts and sciences

• something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

• adopted in order to deceive

• make a pretence of

• Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938)

• a sudden very loud noise

• a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

• a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

• obstruct with, or as if with, a dam

• meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

• exaggerate one's acting

• preserve of crushed fruit

• press tightly together or cram

• a rapid escape (as by criminals)

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

• arrange a program of or for

• a tool for driving or forcing something by impact

• strike or drive against with a heavy impact

• a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target

• a fraudulent business scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form

• An autocrat or dominant critic, especially Samuel Johnson.

• To chew.

• the act of swimming

• travel through water

• flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)

• young sheep

• give birth to a lamb

• burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness

• gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

• crowd or pack to capacity

• unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk)

• send unwanted or junk e-mail

• a woolen cap of Scottish origin

• a message transmitted by telegraph

• a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers

• travel by tram

• edible tuber of any of several yams

• winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

• close violently

• an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event

• write a computer program

• Glamour.

• To make glamorous or more glamorous.

• Glamorous.

• a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase

• read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning

• a telegram sent abroad

• a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts

• make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

• the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography

• A freak or whim; an idle fancy.

• To deceive with a falsehood.

• To program anew or differently.

• title used for a married Frenchwoman

• strike hard

• upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance

• an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction

• a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory

• examination to determine a candidate's preparation for a course of studies

• a witty saying

• an examination administered at the end of an academic term

• one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

• any stoppage attributable to unusual activity