Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 1 - Day 4
NEW WORDS
- badger [baj´ər]
“There are other do’s and don’ts: don’t threaten your children, don’t badger them.” Newspaper ad for Partnership for a Drug-Free America, New York Times, 11/4/99
- implore [im plôr´]
“No beggars implored Scrooge to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
- drudgery [druj´ ər ē]
“And then she came to find the paralytic aunt—housework—janitor’s drudgery.” Anzia Yezierska, “Hunger”
- interminable [in ter´ mə nə bəl]
“In his clean white shirt and blue jeans, with one hand resting carelessly on the black box, he seemed very proper and important as he talked interminably to Mr. Graves and the Martins.” Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
- perceive [pər sēv´]
“The subjects, as you perceive, were alarming but very agreeable.” Anton Chekhov, “A Slander”
TODAY’S IDIOM
to pour oil on troubled waters—to make peace, to calm someone down
When I tried to pour oil on troubled waters, both the angry husband and his wife stopped their quarrel and began to attack me.
