Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 13 - Day 3
NEW WORDS
- premise [prem´ is]
“That train of reasoning has all the various parts and terms—its major premise and its conclusion.” T. H. Huxley, “We Are All Scientists”
- jeopardize [jep´ ər dīz]
“Cancellation of the event would have jeopardized the financial survival of the organization.” Nat Hentoff, “Picket Lines are Labor’s Free Speech,” Village Voice, 6/15/99
- incredulous [in krej´ ə ləs]
“The Nazi war on cancer?—other readers may be as incredulous as I was when this book came to my attention.” Michael Sherry, New York Times, 5/23/99
- permeate [pėr´ mē āt]
“The play is permeated with scriptural imagery, notably a Last Supper.” Robert Brustein, New Republic, 6/7/99
- propitious [prə pish´]
“Sometime later, I will find a propitious ground and bury you there in the same grave.” Shen Chunlieh, “In Memory of a Child,” 1619
TODAY’S IDIOM
out of the frying pan into the fire—to go from a difficult situation to a worse one
I thought I had escaped, but actually I went out of the frying pan into the fire.
