Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 10 - Day 5

At the end of this week’s study, you will have covered 200 words and 40 idioms. In addition, you will have seen many of those words used several times in subsequent lessons. If you have been operating at only 75% efficiency, you have, nevertheless, added substantially to your arsenal of words.

Here’s a thought: wouldn’t it be wonderful if through genuine attention to the daily dosage you could move up to 80%—or even 90%? Start by matching the 20 words with their meanings. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper. Did somebody say 100%?

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. sad
  2. b. draw back
  3. c. foil
  4. d. cease
  5. e. interrupt
  6. f. stormy, harsh
  7. g. indicative
  8. h. appropriate
  9. i. powerless to move
  10. j. large dog
  11. k. outstanding
  12. l. read carefully
  13. m. preoccupy
  14. n. easily shocked
  15. o. forewarning
  16. p. about to happen
  17. q. hard to grasp
  18. r. pale
  19. s. absorbed
  20. t. display of emotions
  21. u. to reveal one’s emotions
  22. v. being scolded
  23. w. fight imaginary enemies
  24. x. to bear the consequences

REVIEW WORDS

  1. desist __________
  2. doleful __________
  3. elusive __________
  4. engrossed __________
  5. frustrate __________
  6. histrionics __________
  7. imminent __________
  8. inclement __________
  9. inert __________
  10. interject __________
  11. mastiff __________
  12. obsess __________
  13. pertinent __________
  14. peruse __________
  15. premonition __________
  16. recoil __________
  17. salient __________
  18. squeamish __________
  19. symptomatic __________
  20. wan __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. to pay the piper __________
  2. on the carpet __________
  3. to show one’s hand __________
  4. to tilt at windmills __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 10

Using the clues listed below, record separately using one of the new words you learned this week for each blank in the following story.

Clues
  1. 4th Day
  2. 1st Day
  3. 4th Day
  4. 1st Day
  5. 3rd Day

The Potato that Strangled Idaho

People who are (1)__________ about the sight of blood or (2)__________ in horror from most forms of violence would do well to avoid some of the movies now being shown at their local cinemas. Producers have learned that films that scare the patrons out of their seats, ironically, put millions of fans into those seats, keeping them (3)__________ in the goose pimple-inducing spectacles that flash across the screen.

Of course, each movie carries with it a rating that indicates its suitability for certain age groups, either because of its subject matter, language, presentation, or level of violence. Pictures with a “G” rating are approved for all audiences, while, at the other end of the scale, those that are given an “X” rating are for adults only with no children allowed under any circumstance. Getting an “R” rating indicates that the movie is restricted (no one under 18 admitted without an adult) but some Hollywood moguls consider the “R” to be the magnet that insures box office success. And we can be sure that as long as shock films ring up a merry tune on the cash registers, producers will not (4)__________ from making them.

A director who specializes in making gory films involving monsters, vampires, and brutal serial killers boasted in a college lecture that his work was in good taste. One student who disasgreed was provoked to (5)__________ that in his opinion the diet of “shock-schlock” movies was in worse taste than those pictures that contained vulgar language and nudity. “At least they’re honest,” he declared.

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