Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 17 - Day 4
NEW WORDS
- exult [eg zult´]
“YANKEES EXULT OVER PETTITTE’S PERFORMANCE” Headline, Sports Section, Newsday, 6/19/99
- attest [ə test´]
“Thousands of satisfied users can attest to the great features such as Voicemail and Caller ID that work the same way wherever you go on our network.” Newspaper ad for Internet company, New York Times, 6/12/99
- gullible [gul´ ə bəl]
“‘Charles the horse was wonderful!’ cried a gullible goose.” James Thurber, “What Happened to Charles”
- deploy [di ploi´]
“Eisenhower expressed the hope that the United States would not be the first to deploy a weapon so horrible.” David McCullough, Truman
- enigma [i nig´ mə]
“He was an enigma—by this I mean that he did not look soldierly nor financial nor artistic nor anything definite at all.” Max Beerbohm, “A.V. Laider”
TODAY’S IDIOM
a chip off the old block—a son who is like his father (from the same block of wood)
When we saw the alcoholic’s son enter the liquor store, we assumed that he was a chip off the old block.
