Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 13 - Day 5

No matter what the theme, no matter what the source, we can expect that important concepts will require a mature vocabulary. This week’s topic, scientific and biographical in nature, serves as a vehicle for teaching you twenty worthwhile words. You now have the chance to see whether you remember their definitions. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. ask urgently
  2. b. undeniable
  3. c. guess
  4. d. accomplished by secret
  5. e. to put down
  6. f. favorable
  7. g. cut short
  8. h. workable
  9. i. underground
  10. j. final
  11. k. to result finally
  12. l. to spread through
  13. m. conquer
  14. n. place of safety
  15. o. endanger
  16. p. a proposition for argument
  17. q. skeptical
  18. r. in an early stage
  19. s. puzzling
  20. t. to give off
  21. u. to maintain interest
  22. v. from bad to worse
  23. w. the major portion
  24. x. to face a problem directly

REVIEW WORDS

  1. cryptic __________
  2. curtail __________
  3. emit __________
  4. eventuate __________
  5. haven __________
  6. importune __________
  7. inchoate __________
  8. incontrovertible __________
  9. incredulous __________
  10. jeopardize __________
  11. permeate __________
  12. premise __________
  13. propitious __________
  14. repress __________
  15. subjugate __________
  16. subterranean __________
  17. surmise __________
  18. surreptitious __________
  19. ultimate __________
  20. viable __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. take the bull by the horns __________
  2. the lion’s share __________
  3. out of the frying pan into the fire __________
  4. keep the pot boiling __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 13

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. 2nd Day
  4. 2nd Day
  5. 3rd Day

Drug Smugglers Beware

The (1)__________ message came to Officer Matt Jagusak: “Drug search tomorrow—bring pig.”

Jagusak, with the Union County New Jersey Sheriff’s Department Search and Rescue Unit, had to (2)__________ his superiors to put Ferris E. Lucas, a super sniffer, to work. Lucas is a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig with a fantastic olfactory sense that is one million times greater than a human’s and could be our (3)__________ weapon in breaking up the drug trade.

A canine trainer offered the pig to Union City, suggesting that its intelligence and unique skill will make Lucas a (4)__________ fighter against illegal narcotics. Jagusak has already taught his 55-pound porker-detective how to find cocaine, hashish, and marijuana. While some law enforcement officials were (5)__________ at first, they quickly became believers when they saw the Sherlock Holmes of the sty locate underground drug scents that had eluded trained dogs.

“I don’t care if it’s a dog, a pig, or an elephant,” Jagusak’s boss said. “If it benefits the department and our community, we’ll try it.”

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