Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 2 - Day 5

Keep adding to your vocabulary, as it is one of the most useful tools a student can possess.Let’s go over the twenty new words and four idioms you studied during this week.

Review Words

In the following quiz, match the best possible definition with the word you have studied. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. uncommunicative
  2. b. enthusiastic
  3. c. alert
  4. d. overabundance
  5. e. courageous
  6. f. to greet first
  7. g. an excuse
  8. h. unlucky
  9. i. angry
  10. j. criminal
  11. k. basic, elementary
  12. l. clever
  13. m. to make up a lie
  14. n. great number of people
  15. o. concise, pithy
  16. p. to use lively gestures
  17. q. shade of difference
  18. r. sly
  19. s. coax, wheedle
  20. t. to make greater
  21. u. an expensive conquest
  22. v. spoilsport
  23. w. defy an opponent in his home
  24. x. any threatening danger

REVIEW WORDS

  1. accost __________
  2. adroit __________
  3. avid __________
  4. cajole __________
  5. enhance __________
  6. fabricate __________
  7. felon __________
  8. furtive __________
  9. gesticulate __________
  10. hapless __________
  11. intrepid __________
  12. irate __________
  13. laconic __________
  14. nuance __________
  15. plethora __________
  16. pretext __________
  17. reticent __________
  18. rudimentary __________
  19. throng __________
  20. vigilant __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. the sword of Damocles __________
  2. Pyrrhic victory __________
  3. a wet blanket __________
  4. to beard the lion __________

WORDSEARCH 2

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. 4th Day
  4. 3rd Day
  5. 3rd Day

The Best Laid Plans

Gloria Rogers overslept and then had to sprint to catch the same Greyhound Bus that she boarded on the last Thursday of every month. After a three-hour uneventful ride, she finally arrived at the bus terminal where a courtesy van was ready to transport bus passengers to Visitors Day at the State Penitentiary.

Although Gloria tried to act casual, she was more than a little nervous. Her boyfriend, Art, a convicted (1)__________ , had managed to gain admittance to the prison’s hospital on the (2)__________ of having a gall bladder attack. Under her own slacks and bulky sweater, Gloria was wearing a set of clothes that she removed in the hospital bathroom and passed on to Art. He planned to use them after making his escape in the back of the prison ambulance that was parked outside his ward.

Art had spelled out his escape plan during Gloria’s last visit, spending an hour trying to (3)__________ her into being his accomplice. All that she had to do was appear to have a seizure. Then she would (4)__________ a story about her epilepsy while Art, with the smuggled clothes concealed under his prison bathrobe, would slip out of the ward during the excitement. Unfortunately for the schemers, a (5)__________ hospital guard spotted Art climbing into the rear of the ambulance and quickly foiled the escape attempt. The result was that Art had three years added to his sentence and Gloria was imprisoned for her role in the misadventure.

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