Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 14 - Day 5

Many people agree that a lawyer should be skillful with words. A Philadelphia lawyer,* it goes without saying, must have an extensive vocabulary in order to help him or her present a case.

Match the twenty words with their meanings. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. huge
  2. b. evident, open
  3. c. courage
  4. d. to strive for
  5. e. banish, assign to inferior position
  6. f. deadly
  7. g. soft job
  8. h. prejudice
  9. i. keen, acute
  10. j. run quickly
  11. k. hasten
  12. l. remarkable, uncommon
  13. m. attack verbally
  14. n. drive back
  15. o. lying on the back
  16. p. destroy
  17. q. conventional custom
  18. r. irritate
  19. s. ruin
  20. t. loud
  21. u. to praise extravagantly
  22. v. outstandingly able
  23. w. to beat someone to the punch
  24. x. make peace

REVIEW WORDS

  1. aspire __________
  2. bias __________
  3. havoc __________
  4. incisive __________
  5. inveigh __________
  6. lethal __________
  7. mammoth __________
  8. nettle __________
  9. overt __________
  10. precipitate __________
  11. raze __________
  12. relegate __________
  13. repulse __________
  14. scurry __________
  15. sinecure __________
  16. singular __________
  17. stentorian __________
  18. stereotype __________
  19. supine __________
  20. valor __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. bury the hatchet __________
  2. Philadelphia lawyer __________
  3. gild the lily __________
  4. steal one’s thunder __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 14

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

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Teen Talk Barbie, the best-selling $50 model, has gone a step too far in the opinion of the American Association of University Women. Representatives of that group were (1)__________ to hear that one of the four phrases that the doll is programmed to utter is, “Math class is tough.”

For years the university professors, as well as members of feminist organizations, have (2)__________ against the (3)__________ that portrays girls as weak math and science students. “Because that brainwashing message is conveyed to girls at an early age, they come to accept what we consider to be a blatant (4)__________ ,” said Dr. Ellen Kaner, a Dallas chemist. “We are just beginning to make progress in our campaign to recruit women for challenging, well-paying careers in math and science,” she added, “and were shocked to learn that Barbie is spreading such harmful nonsense.”

Executives of the company that manufactures Teen Talk Barbie had to (5)__________ to set matters right. They admitted that the phrase in question, one of 270 selected by computer chips, was a mistake. In a press release, their president said, “We didn’t fully consider the potentially negative implications of this phrase. Not only will we remove it immediately but will swap with anyone who bought the offending doll.”

We wonder how Ken feels about the matter.

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