Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 22 - Day 5

If you’re driving, don’t drink! Alcohol does not mix with gasoline! We have seen those slogans on many billboards. Here’s a new one: “If you use words, use good ones!”

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

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. accumulated
  2. b. admit
  3. c. relieve without curing
  4. d. to lie
  5. e. to fool
  6. f. a name
  7. g. predicament
  8. h. secret
  9. i. intensification
  10. j. to be a match for
  11. k. obscure, hidden
  12. l. imaginary, fantastic
  13. m. related to marriage
  14. n. possible
  15. o. to place side by side
  16. p. to object
  17. q. introduction
  18. r. lack of concern
  19. s. lack of harmony
  20. t. disabled
  21. u. trying to gain favor
  22. v. severe set of rules
  23. w. admit guilt on a lesser charge
  24. x. in good condition

REVIEW WORDS

  1. acknowledge __________
  2. appellation __________
  3. chimerical __________
  4. connubial __________
  5. cope __________
  6. covert __________
  7. cumulative __________
  8. delude __________
  9. demur __________
  10. escalation __________
  11. fabricate __________
  12. incapacitated __________
  13. incompatibility __________
  14. indifference __________
  15. juxtapose __________
  16. palliate __________
  17. plight __________
  18. potential (adj.) __________
  19. prelude __________
  20. recondite __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. plea bargain __________
  2. in apple pie order __________
  3. apple polishing __________
  4. Draconian Code __________

Make a record of those words you missed.

WORDSEARCH 22

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

Hair Today, . . .

The fact that a hair salon might charge $40 for a woman’s shampoo and haircut but only $20 for the same services for a man is a matter of (1)__________ to most citizens. Not so to New York City’s Commission on Human Rights, which claimed that such a disparity is discriminatory. Commissioner Dennis De Leon has targeted “gender-based” pricing as a violation of city law.

Consider the (2)__________ of the salon owners. They (3)__________ the price difference, explaining that it takes much longer to cut a woman’s hair and requires the use of additional products. But a spokesperson for the Department of Consumer Affairs said that beauty parlors will have to (4)__________ with the situation honestly, just as dry cleaners and used-car dealers did when they were apprised of the law.

“I know that women are fighting for equality,” said the owner of a chain of unisex hair salons, “but this is ridiculous. We cut a man’s hair in no time but we have to get more money from our female customers because their styling and cutting takes so much longer.”

The argument might be the (5)__________ to an important court case. A city-proposed settlement, however, is to have those salons that are cited for violations of the law offer free haircuts to women for a period of three months before having to pay a stiff fine for repeated offenses.

“It’s easier to comply,” shrugged one owner (bald, himself).

Answer Key
Favorite Books
Table of Contents