Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 3 - Day 5

The word “review” means “to view again” and that is the purpose of our weekly review. You will have noticed, of course, that many of the words that appear as new words are repeated in subsequent lessons. Sometimes they are in the paragraph, sometimes in the sample sentences, and occasionally in the idioms or directions. This continued emphasis on “viewing again” will help you to become familiar with the vocabulary.

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. despise
  2. b. menacing
  3. c. evil
  4. d. a pause
  5. e. just starting
  6. f. trembling
  7. g. to have one’s hair stand up
  8. h. stinging
  9. i. earthly
  10. j. due to an oversight, negligent
  11. k. make a specific demand
  12. l. to push, to elbow
  13. m. an easily fooled person
  14. n. expression of sympathy
  15. o. to scold severely
  16. p. seize
  17. q. having inconsistent elements
  18. r. disown, refuse to accept
  19. s. lacking brightness
  20. t. saying something in a less direct way
  21. u. run down district
  22. v. hypocritical sympathy
  23. w. to win the honors
  24. x. end fruitlessly

REVIEW WORDS

  1. bristle __________
  2. caustic __________
  3. cessation __________
  4. condolence __________
  5. dupe __________
  6. euphemism __________
  7. inadvertent __________
  8. incipient __________
  9. incongruous __________
  10. infamous __________
  11. jostle __________
  12. lackluster __________
  13. loathe __________
  14. mundane __________
  15. ominous __________
  16. reprimand __________
  17. repudiate __________
  18. stipulate __________
  19. tremulous __________
  20. wrest __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. crocodile tears __________
  2. to carry the day __________
  3. Skid Row __________
  4. to go up in smoke __________

Make a record of those words you missed. You can learn them successfully by studying them and using them regularly in speech and in your writing.

WORDSEARCH 3

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

Desert Storm Decision

In the 1991 Persian Gulf War, where the United Nations forces, led by Americans, ousted the invading Iraqi army from Kuwait’s soil, the (1)__________ of combat took place in short order after the Allies were able to (2)__________ control of the skies from the (3)__________ Saddam Hussein’s air force.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. field commander, tended to (4)__________ when asked by the media why he hadn’t pursued the enemy all the way to Baghdad, saying:

“It would have been foolhardy for us to try to occupy that capital city and pile up American casualties from sniper attacks by Iraq’s guerillas. That may be hard for you Monday morning quarterbacks to understand but I thoroughly agreed with the president who was convinced that such an action would have sent a bad message to the Arab world and would have splintered the Allied partnership.”

Schwarzkopf reiterated that it was his mission to hurl back the invaders with a minimum of bloodshed but not, he added in a (5)__________ tone, “to splatter Saddam over the desert sands. That dictator’s days are numbered,” the general concluded, “but I expect his end is likely to come at the hands of his own people.”

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