Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 24 - Day 1
NEW WORDS
- anthropologist [an´ thrə pol´ ə jist]
“Burning tobacco, anthropologists have found, was a religious practice over 2000 years ago in the Mayan culture.” Journal of Urban Health, 9/99
- bizarre [bə zär´]
“The police claim they were responding to the bizarre behavior of the man when they were forced to shoot him.” New York Post, 9/27/99
- inanimate [in an´ ə mit]
“We assumed that the inanimate body in the rubble was dead but the dog, trained to distinguish between live and dead bodies, knew better.” Stephen Kinzer, “Turkish Earthquake Relief,” New York Times, 8/21/99
- fetish [fet´ ish]
“Today the automobile has become a fetish for one’s standing and accomplishments.” Mark Twain, Autobiography
- artifact [är´ tə fakt]
“In caves in Chile, remains of horses have been found along with human artifacts.” A. Hyatt Verrill, The Strange Story of Our Earth
TODAY’S IDIOM
to get down off a high horse—to act like an ordinary person
When Susan discovered that the young man who was trying to make conversation with her was the son of a millionaire, she immediately got down off her high horse.
