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

Congratulations! You have covered the first one hundred words in the book. With the same diligence you should be able to tackle the remaining work and to master most of the challenging words.

Review Words

Take the following quiz by matching the best possible definition with the word you have studied. *Reminder: Record answers on a sheet of paper.

DEFINITIONS

  1. a. double-dealing
  2. b. cannot be moved by persuasion, inflexible
  3. c. silly
  4. d. flourishing
  5. e. to scold, warn
  6. f. harassed
  7. g. to permit, to put up with
  8. h. extract
  9. i. damaging, harmful
  10. j. outstanding for undesirable quality
  11. k. notorious
  12. l. force, coercion
  13. m. exemption
  14. n. moral philosophy
  15. o. agree
  16. p. hidden, secret
  17. q. to interpret
  18. r. one who commits a crime
  19. s. shortage
  20. t. caustic, bitter
  21. u. to idolize
  22. v. to humiliate
  23. w. the necessary equipment
  24. x. to refuse to take responsibility

REVIEW WORDS

  1. acrimonious __________
  2. admonish __________
  3. clandestine __________
  4. concur __________
  5. construe __________
  6. culprit __________
  7. distraught __________
  8. duplicity __________
  9. duress __________
  10. egregious __________
  11. elicit __________
  12. ethics __________
  13. flagrant __________
  14. impunity __________
  15. inane __________
  16. inexorable __________
  17. paucity __________
  18. pernicious __________
  19. rampant __________
  20. tolerate __________

Idioms

IDIOMS

  1. stock in trade __________
  2. to take down a peg __________
  3. pass the buck __________
  4. to lionize a person __________

Make a record of those words you missed. You can learn them successfully by studying them and by using them in original sentences. Use a word three times and it is yours forever, a wise man once said.

WORDSEARCH 5

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

Driving While Drunk

Throughout literature we find recurring tales of forthright people who are outspoken in condemning illegal practices only to be brought low themselves when they, or members of their families, commit such acts. Since literature reflects life, we can expect to find similar instances in which a person’s (1)__________ are compromised, and he falls prey to the (2)__________ evil that he had publicly denounced.

Take the story of Barry Vernon (not his real name), an aggressive Ohio district attorney. Vernon could be counted upon to make (3)__________ remarks about anyone who was driving while intoxicated. On numerous speaking engagements, he railed against drunkenness and swore that any such (4)__________ who was found behind the wheel of a car would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

As fate would have it, Vernon’s own son smashed into several cars, injuring four people seriously, and then failed a sobriety test.

Following that (5)__________ violation of the law, Vernon resigned from office, saying that as a private citizen he would continue his crusade against those who drive under the influence of alcohol. Meanwhile, he wished to spend more time with his son to try to understand the young man’s behavior.

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