Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 25 - Day 5

Week by week your word-power is being built. It’s like putting money in the bank. Remember, in our language there may be many synonyms and related meanings for each word. Knowing one synonym is good, but you will reap greater benefits from knowing several. Below is the matching review for this week.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. trembling, shaking with old age
  2. b. regret
  3. c. bursting out
  4. d. infirm, weak as a result of old age
  5. e. wise man, philosopher
  6. f. ruins, fragments
  7. g. weak, unimportant
  8. h. protection, sponsorship, shield
  9. i. agreeable, sympathetic
  10. j. broken up, scattered, spread
  11. k. sad, pitiable
  12. l. hurt, damage, injury
  13. m. drink
  14. n. great fire
  15. o. manly, masterful
  16. p. inspiring terror, weird
  17. q. set going, start
  18. r. accumulate, save, store up
  19. s. long duration of life
  20. t. wipe out, erase
  21. u. in a bored or depressed state
  22. v. makes very little difference
  23. w. swing for and against something
  24. x. work late into the night

REVIEW WORDS

  1. aegis __________
  2. awesome __________
  3. conflagration __________
  4. congenial __________
  5. debris __________
  6. deplorable __________
  7. detriment __________
  8. dispersed __________
  9. doddering __________
  10. eruption __________
  11. hoard __________
  12. imbibe __________
  13. initiate __________
  14. longevity __________
  15. obliterate __________
  16. puny __________
  17. rue __________
  18. sage __________
  19. senile __________
  20. virile __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. as broad as it is long __________
  2. blow hot and cold __________
  3. in the doldrums __________
  4. burn the midnight oil __________

Don’t neglect words you fail to answer correctly. These problem words can be mastered quickly if you write them down, look up their meanings, and practice using them.

WORDSEARCH 25

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. 2nd Day
  3. 2nd Day
  4. 3rd Day
  5. 3rd Day

Save the Whales, at Least

Have we all become tired of the much used word “environment”? How often we hear or read about the (1)__________ state of the world’s rivers, forests, air, and earth. When we lose sight of the fact that countless numbers of creatures have become extinct because their environment could no longer sustain them, then we ignore the possibility that these same changes could (2)__________ many species that we take for granted.

Our life-style, and that of the billions of others on this earth, puts waste into the air and water. We may (3)__________ this careless behavior. While there may still be enough clean water and air for us, the loss of animals and plants can only be a (4)__________ to a good life for the generations that follow.

No one suggests that the solutions to our environmental problems are easy. The nations and people of the world are in competition for the limited riches of this planet. It will take the sagest and most dedicated leaders, under whose (5)__________ educated and concerned citizens will live and work, to protect the environment.

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