Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know » Week 46 - Day 5

This is your last week. At this point you have worked with over 1100 of the most useful words and idioms in our language. The final review test will give you some idea of how well you have mastered them. From time to time you should re-read sections of this book to refresh your memory. Remember, keep learning new words at every opportunity!

Review Words

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. lack, scarcity
  2. b. favoritism towards relatives
  3. c. novice, beginner
  4. d. artificial, sham
  5. e. lying, deviation from the truth
  6. f. ruler
  7. g. scatter, spread
  8. h. an exclusive power or right
  9. i. dishonor, disgrace, shame
  10. j. high praise
  11. k. quality of leadership inspiring enthusiasm
  12. l. asleep, resting
  13. m. grew, flourished
  14. n. planned destruction of an entire people
  15. o. false reasoning or argument
  16. p. mutually destructive, involving conflict in a group
  17. q. received from a source, descended from
  18. r. generous
  19. s. exaggerated figure of speech
  20. t. find out about, discover
  21. u. in a direct, open way
  22. v. to discourage a plan or idea
  23. w. to become cautious
  24. x. to do something to irritate or annoy

REVIEW WORDS

  1. ascertain __________
  2. burgeoned __________
  3. charisma __________
  4. dearth __________
  5. derived __________
  6. disseminate __________
  7. dormant __________
  8. encomium __________
  9. factitious __________
  10. genocide __________
  11. hyperbole __________
  12. internecine __________
  13. munificent __________
  14. nepotism __________
  15. obloquy __________
  16. potentate __________
  17. prerogative __________
  18. prevarication __________
  19. sophistry __________
  20. tyro __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. to draw in one’s horns __________
  2. straight from the shoulder __________
  3. to throw cold water __________
  4. to rub a person the wrong way __________

WHICH WORD COMES TO MIND? (From Weeks 45–46)

Record separately the letter of the vocabulary word adjacent to the sentence or phrase that brings it to mind.

  • a. appalled
  • b. brigand
  • c. yen
  • d. tyro
  • e. corpulent
  • f. prerogative
  • g. genocide
  • h. nepotism
  • i. potentate
  • j. dearth
  • k. livid
  • l. decapitate
  • m. prevarication
  • n. raconteur
  • o. taut
  • p. internecine
  1. “Hiring your nephew, eh?” __________
  2. “All hail the sultan!” __________
  3. “I just looked in the mirror; tomorrow we start our diet.” __________
  4. The descent of the guillotine __________
  5. “I have a strong desire to own Japanese currency.” __________
  6. George Washington to his father: “I cannot tell a lie.” __________
  7. Now showing: The Pirates of Penzance __________
  8. Best storyteller in town __________
  9. The Civil War __________
  10. “He claims to have the right to change his mind.” __________

WORDSEARCH 46

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

Words, Words, Words

You have been strengthening and building a basic vocabulary as you have progressed through this book. The tests, quizzes, and exercises have helped you (1)__________ how far you have advanced. We hope you have come to the end of 1100 Words You Need to Know with a command of vocabulary that has (2)__________ from week to week. Your interest and attention have paid off in many ways. You have (3)__________ pleasure and knowledge from reading passages on varied topics. You are better equipped to read, study, converse, and write with confidence.

The objectives that started you working on building your vocabulary should not now become (4)__________ . A permanent desire to master new words should be an added value obtained from this book. We hope that any (5)__________ you receive for your command of English vocabulary will spur you on to more and greater mastery of words you need to know.

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