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Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 16 – Day 4


Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 16 - Day 4

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NEW WORDS

  • virtuosity [vėr´ chü os´ ə tē] 

“Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lector in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian.” Paul Grey, “Dessert, Anyone?,” TIME, 6/21/99

  • temerity [tə mer´ ə tē] 

“In the first month of his service in the House, the young Congressman had the temerity to challenge his party’s Speaker; it was a mistake.” Blanche Kassell, Up on the Hill

  • amorous [am´ ər əs] 

“A complete gentleman ought to dress well, dance well, have a genius for love letters, be very amorous but not overconstant.” Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode

  • progeny [proj´ ə nē] 

“First, let me tell you whom you have condemn’d: Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, But issued from the progeny of kings.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV

  • saturate [sa-chə-rāt] 

“Vanilla sweetens the air, ginger spices it; melting nose-tingling odors saturate the kitchen.” Truman Capote, “A Christmas Memory”

TODAY’S IDIOM

to have the upper hand—to gain control

I had him at my mercy, but now he has the upper hand.

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