Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 13 - Day 4
NEW WORDS
- surmise [sər mīz´]
“The commanding officer surmised that the other ship in the cove was a coaster.” Joseph Conrad, Tales of Hearsay
- curtail [kėr tāl´]
“A court decision to a freeze on regulations to curtail cross-state pollution was unpopular.” “EPA’s Reduced Standards,” Newsday, 6/15/99
- repress [ri pres´]
“General McClellan repressed his feelings about President Lincoln but he expressed his private anger in letters to his wife.” David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
- cryptic [krip´ tik]
“Ms. Bogart, an iconoclastic director known for her cryptic reworkings of everything, turns out to be an ideal interpreter for Gertrude Stein.” Ben Brantley, “Gertrude and Alice,” New York Times, 6/14/99
- inchoate [in kō´ it]
“The general plan is inchoate and incoherent and the particular treatments disconnected.” Hillary Corke, Global Economy
TODAY’S IDIOM
to keep the pot boiling—to see that interest doesn’t die down
Dickens kept the pot boiling by ending each chapter on a note of uncertainty and suspense.
