Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 24 - Day 5

And today it’s time to strengthen your word knowledge again. You’ve noticed, of course, that the matching definitions are not always the definitions you may have been familiar with. This is the way language works. It is impossible to provide a one-word synonym or simple definition for a word that you will always be able to substitute for it. Therefore, in our weekly review we hope not only to check your learning, but also to teach you closely related meanings.

Match the best possible definition with the word you studied. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. a hand-made object
  2. b. unwise
  3. c. one who is not tolerant of others’ ideas
  4. d. completely protected
  5. e. a magical object
  6. f. widespread
  7. g. begin, arise
  8. h. person who studies mankind’s customs
  9. i. forbidden
  10. j. long-standing practice
  11. k. weird
  12. l. able to be hurt
  13. m. looking down on someone or something
  14. n. to utterly hate
  15. o. without life
  16. p. forbidding of certain actions
  17. q. necessary
  18. r. ridiculous
  19. s. plea, appeal
  20. t. contaminate
  21. u. the greatest
  22. v. a highly valued asset
  23. w. to act like an ordinary person
  24. x. set in one’s ways

REVIEW WORDS

  1. abhor __________
  2. absurd __________
  3. anthropologist __________
  4. artifact __________
  5. bigot __________
  6. bizarre __________
  7. contemptuous __________
  8. entreaty __________
  9. fetish __________
  10. imperative __________
  11. imprudent __________
  12. inanimate __________
  13. inviolable __________
  14. originate __________
  15. prohibition __________
  16. taboo __________
  17. taint __________
  18. tradition __________
  19. universal __________
  20. vulnerable __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. to get off one’s high horse __________
  2. of the first water __________
  3. dyed-in-the-wool __________
  4. blue chip __________

Record your errors and their correct meanings. These words must be studied independently if you want to master them. Use them in original sentences. Also, study the several different definitions a good dictionary provides for each of these problem words.

ADJECTIVE LEADERS AND NOUN FOLLOWERS (From Weeks 21–24)

Directions Record separately, the letter corresponding to the vocabulary word (above) for the noun (below) that it is most likely to precede.

  • a. fulsome
  • b. covert
  • c. bona fide
  • d. lush
  • e. bizarre
  • f. susceptible
  • g. inviolable
  • h. taboo
  • i. catastrophic
  • j. inanimate
  • k. imprudent
  • l. maladjusted
  • m. connubial
  • n. heterogeneous
  • o. inordinate
  1. bliss __________
  2. diamond __________
  3. praise __________
  4. amount __________
  5. incident __________
  6. purchase __________
  7. meeting __________
  8. object __________
  9. earthquake __________
  10. law __________

WORDSEARCH 24

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

Map Makers at Work

We are all caught up in the events that change history and the shape of the countries in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Each time a country changes its name or its borders, there are some people who have their work cut out for them. They are the map makers—the cartographers. These skilled artists know it is (1)__________ to believe that this year’s borders will remain fixed. Has there ever been an (2)__________ border?

Looking through an atlas of just a few years back, we realize it is simply an (3)__________ of an ever-changing world. If there is one thing for map makers to do, it is to realize how (4)__________ it is for them to keep abreast of world events.

The study of world history is replete with exciting events that have shaken the economic and political past. Geography is the physical rendering of these events. As history moves and changes our lives, it is up to the cartographer to take the (5)__________ lines of a map and shape the picture of this world in motion. A quick search of Google Earth brings our ever-changing planet to our screen.

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