Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 16

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 16 - Day 2

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Question 1

QUEENS, WORKERS, DRONES

Each colony of honeybees consists of three classes: a) the queen who is a prolific layer of eggs; b) the worker who is the bulwark of the colony; and c) the sedentary drone whose only function is to mate with a young queen. The queen lays the eggs that hatch into thousands of female workers; some queens live as long as five years and lay up to one million eggs. The frugal worker builds and maintains the nest, collects and stores the honey, and is the antithesis of the lazy drone, or male honeybee, who does not work and has no sting. When the drone is no longer needed, the workers, in effect, liquidate* him by letting him starve to death. It’s a cruel, cruel world!

Sample Sentences: Use the new words in the following sentences.

The usually _____ novelist was frustrated* by her failure to come up with a good plot.

A	sedentary
B	prolific
C	bulwark
D	frugal
E	antithesis

Question 2

Len, the gregarious* twin, was the _____ of Lon, the reticent one.

A	sedentary
B	prolific
C	bulwark
D	frugal
E	antithesis

Question 3

The typist shook off the fetters* of her _____ life and joined a mountain climbing expedition.

A	sedentary
B	prolific
C	bulwark
D	frugal
E	antithesis

Question 4

_____ shoppers occasionally badger* supermarket managers for bargains.

A	sedentary
B	prolific
C	bulwark
D	frugal
E	antithesis

Question 5

Some feel that the United States should be a _____ to the inchoate* democracies around the world.

A	sedentary
B	prolific
C	bulwark
D	frugal
E	antithesis

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their meanings.

prolific

A	producing abundantly
B	thrifty
C	protection
D	exact opposite
E	largely inactive, accustomed to sitting

Question 7

bulwark

A	producing abundantly
B	thrifty
C	protection
D	exact opposite
E	largely inactive, accustomed to sitting

Question 8

sedentary

A	producing abundantly
B	thrifty
C	protection
D	exact opposite
E	largely inactive, accustomed to sitting

Question 9

frugal

A	producing abundantly
B	thrifty
C	protection
D	exact opposite
E	largely inactive, accustomed to sitting

Question 10

antithesis

A	producing abundantly
B	thrifty
C	protection
D	exact opposite
E	largely inactive, accustomed to sitting

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NEW WORDS

prolific [prə lif´ ik]

“Isaac Asimov was a truly prolific writer, seemingly able to complete a book every two weeks.” Art Nichols, Selling Your Manuscript

bulwark [bůl´ wərk]

“That England, hedged in with the main, That water-walled bulwark, still secure And confidant from foreign purposes.” William Shakespeare, King John

sedentary [sed´ n ter´ ē]

“Seeger had seen him relapsing gradually into the small-town hardware merchant he had been before the war, sedentary and a little shy.” Irwin Shaw, “Act of Faith”