Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 22 – Day 1


Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 22 - Day 1

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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

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