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.
