Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 16 - Day 5

Even if you are as busy as the proverbial bee, you can always manage the fifteen to twenty minutes that are required for these daily vocabulary sessions.

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

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. secret hiding place
  2. b. thrifty
  3. c. enjoying the company of others
  4. d. exact opposite
  5. e. adorn
  6. f. unselfish
  7. g. small exclusive group
  8. h. greed
  9. i. not thorough, hasty
  10. j. descendants
  11. k. an unauthorized person
  12. l. native
  13. m. largely inactive
  14. n. natural environment
  15. o. foolish boldness
  16. p. fill up completely
  17. q. protection
  18. r. full of love
  19. s. great technical skill
  20. t. fertile
  21. u. directly
  22. v. gain control
  23. w. attempt something without necessary materials
  24. x. temptations

REVIEW WORDS

  1. altruistic __________
  2. amorous __________
  3. antithesis __________
  4. bulwark __________
  5. cache __________
  6. coterie __________
  7. cupidity __________
  8. cursory __________
  9. embellish __________
  10. frugal __________
  11. gregarious __________
  12. habitat __________
  13. indigenous __________
  14. interloper __________
  15. progeny __________
  16. prolific __________
  17. saturate __________
  18. sedentary __________
  19. temerity __________
  20. virtuosity __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. in a bee line __________
  2. the world, the flesh, and the devil __________
  3. make bricks without straw __________
  4. have the upper hand __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 16

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

Cheating a Cheater

“Our neighborhood was so tough,” the comedian joked, “that two guys held up a bank and were mugged as they ran to their getaway car.”

Later that evening, as Roy and Timmy were discussing the comic’s routine, Roy was reminded of a true (he said) story that went like this:

Mr. D., the gang kingpin in our community, loved money. Like Silas Marner, the (1)__________ weaver of George Eliot’s novel, he enjoyed counting his treasure each Friday night. Mr. D’s (2)__________ was concealed in a wall safe behind a painting in his office. The $50 and $100 bills made his hands dirty as he counted them but Mr. D didn’t mind. The filth of the lucre did not disturb him at all.

One Friday evening, Roy continued, a brash (3)__________ had the (4)__________ to try to steal the illgotten gains. Having bought the combination from a relative who had installed Mr. D’s safe, he stuffed his loot into a laundry bag and was halfway out the door when he spied a $10 bill on the floor. His (5)__________ made him go back for that small change, and in that moment, Mr. D. arrived on the scene.

The quick-thinking thief blurted out, “I’ll have the shirts back on Friday.” Hoisting the laundry bag over his shoulder, he was out the door before the confused mobster could figure out what had happened.

Timmy, who had listened patiently, said, “I don’t believe a word of that story because it would take a guy with a great deal of starch to pull it off!”

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