Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 35 - Day 5

To strengthen your word power, keep adding words from all the sources you use during the day. The words learned while reading this book give you a firm basis. School texts, newspapers, magazines, etc., should all give you the opportunity to corroborate* the fact that your vocabulary is growing, and they should also be the source for new words.

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. astounded
  2. b. one of no importance
  3. c. witty, humorous
  4. d. ridicule
  5. e. hairy
  6. f. prove wrong, disprove
  7. g. flinch, draw back
  8. h. self-control
  9. i. collapse, ruin
  10. j. hypocritically religious
  11. k. a moralistic story
  12. l. gay, lively
  13. m. bearing, appearance
  14. n. stir up, stimulate
  15. o. boldness
  16. p. approve, tolerate*
  17. q. haggard, thin
  18. r. reflective, thoughtful
  19. s. a commonplace phrase
  20. t. insensible condition, daze
  21. u. make a fuss, cause trouble
  22. v. to make every effort, to try one’s best
  23. w. not to be sincere
  24. x. to quit a place

REVIEW WORDS

  1. cliché __________
  2. countenance __________
  3. debacle __________
  4. effrontery __________
  5. equanimity __________
  6. flabbergasted __________
  7. gaunt __________
  8. hirsute __________
  9. lampoon __________
  10. mien __________
  11. nonentity __________
  12. parable __________
  13. pensive __________
  14. refute __________
  15. sanctimonious __________
  16. stupor __________
  17. vivacious __________
  18. whet __________
  19. whimsical __________
  20. wince __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. tongue in one’s cheek __________
  2. to leave no stone unturned __________
  3. to pull up stakes __________
  4. to raise Cain __________

Look back at the story to check the use of each word in its context. This will help fix it in your mind.

WORDSEARCH 35

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

Beam Me Up, Scotty

In 1966 a television program appeared that quickly established itself as the most successful science fiction series, moved on to become a series of popular films, and continues in reruns to be seen somewhere in this country every night of the year. This original series, Star Trek, became so popular that there are huge fan clubs across the country and the stars of the original series are mobbed when they make personal appearances.

What makes this form of science fiction so popular? Some may say that each story of the future is a (1)__________ showing us our own world through a presentation of other worlds. There are those who would (2)__________ this analysis and argue that it is the odd characters, the (3)__________ aliens, who attract us. We watch with (4)__________ as worlds battle, knowing it will turn out well in the end.

After many years and many TV episodes and movies, “Star Trek” and its successors continue to (5)__________ our appetite and bring excitement to our screens. As long as space remains an almost total mystery, the unexplained will capture our imaginations.

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