Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 1

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 1 - Day 3

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Question 1

IT’S A MAN’S WORLD

How paradoxical that the world’s greatest chefs have all been men! Cooking would clearly seem to be a field that lies exclusively within women’s realm, yet the annals of cookery are replete* with masculine names: Brillat Savarin, Ritz, Diat, Larousse. To compound the puzzle, there has rarely been a tinge of rumor or scandal casting doubts on the masculinity of these heroes of cuisine.

Sample Sentences: Try your hand now at using your new words by writing them in their correct form (change endings if necessary) in these sentences:

His gloom was now _____ by the failing mark on his geometry test.

A	realm
B	annals
C	tinge
D	paradoxes
E	compounded

Question 2

The _____ of sports are replete* with the names of great black athletes.

A	realm
B	annals
C	tinge
D	paradoxes
E	compounded

Question 3

One of the great _____ of American life is that though minority groups have suffered injustices, nowhere in the world have so many varied groups lived together so harmoniously.

A	realm
B	annals
C	tinge
D	paradoxes
E	compounded

Question 4

A _____ of garlic is all that’s necessary in most recipes.

A	realm
B	annals
C	tinge
D	paradoxes
E	compounded

Question 5

The cruel king would not allow the prince to enter his _____, restricting him to the forest, which abounded* with wild animals.

A	realm
B	annals
C	tinge
D	paradoxes
E	compounded

Question 6

Definitions: If you are having trouble in picking the right definitions, it may be best not to do them in the order given, but to do the ones you are surest of first.

paradox

A	a trace, smattering, or slight degree
B	a statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true
C	to increase or add to
D	historical records
E	special field of something or someone; kingdom

Question 7

realm

A	a trace, smattering, or slight degree
B	a statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true
C	to increase or add to
D	historical records
E	special field of something or someone; kingdom

Question 8

annals

A	a trace, smattering, or slight degree
B	a statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true
C	to increase or add to
D	historical records
E	special field of something or someone; kingdom

Question 9

compound (v.)

A	a trace, smattering, or slight degree
B	a statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true
C	to increase or add to
D	historical records
E	special field of something or someone; kingdom

Question 10

tinge (n.)

A	a trace, smattering, or slight degree
B	a statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true
C	to increase or add to
D	historical records
E	special field of something or someone; kingdom

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NEW WORDS

paradox [par´ ə doks]

“Here was a paradox like the stellar universe that fitted one’s mental faults.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

realm [relm]

“In all the churches of the realm the Blessed Sacrament is exposed night and day, and tall candles are burning for the recovery of the royal child.” Alphonse Daudet, “The Death of the Dauphin”

annals [an´ nəlz]

“He would begin these annals with Columbus, and he would keep on with them until his hand was too palsied to hold a pen.” Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus

compound [kom pound´]

“The match between England and Argentina, always a blood feud, was compounded by the memory of the Falklands crisis.” Henry Kissinger, “Pele,” TIME, 6/14/99

tinge [tinj]

“The sermon was tinged, rather more darkly than usual, with the gentle gloom of Mr. Hooper’s temperament.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”