Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 22 - Day 1
NEW WORDS
- juxtapose [juk stə pōz´]
“Theatrical vignettes are juxtaposed through alternating verses in clever boy-girl counterpoint.” “Hot ’N Cole,” Newsday, 6/4/99
- plight [plīt]
“I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight.” Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
- covert [kō´ vərt]
“In a covert manner, Knute traveled abroad that night.” Sinclair Lewis, “Young Man Axelbrod”
- cope [kōp]
“Every single muscle in the body was strained to the uttermost throughout the watch to cope with the steering.” Thor Heyerdahl, Kon Tiki
- incompatibility [in kəm pat´ ə bil´ ə tē]
“Once men tried to reach heaven by building a tower, and I made their formats incompatible.” Garrison Keillor, “Faith at the Speed of Light,” TIME, 6/14/99
TODAY’S IDIOM
plea bargain—to agree to plead guilty to a lesser charge so as to avoid trial for a more serious offense.
The defendant finally took his lawyer’s advice and agreed to a plea bargain of thirddegree assault