Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 30 – Day 2


Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 30 - Day 2

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NEW WORDS

  • condescend [kon´ di send´] 

“The reviewer treated this important book in the most condescending and dismissing manner.” Letter to New York Times Book Review, 7/25/99

  • candor [kan´ dər] 

“He was struck by the candor and self-reliance of the women in these islands.” “Pacific Paradise,” New York Times, 8/9/99

  • mortify [môr´ tə fī] 

“The comparisons between her sister’s beauty and her own no longer would mortify her.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • jocose [jō kōs´] 

“He caught the sound of jocose talk and ringing laughter from behind the hedges.” George Eliot, Adam Bede

  • malign [mə līn´] 

“His chosen weapon is the verbal hand grenade by which he can outrage and malign.” Kenneth Tynan, “On Don Rickles,” New Yorker, 2/20/78

TODAY’S IDIOM

from pillar to post—from one place to another

The company was so large and spread out, he was sent from pillar to post before he found the proper official.

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