Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 34

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 34 - Day 4

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Question 1

EVELYN DISCOVERED

Failure was imminent,* and Robert was bereft* of hope. It was now Friday. Despite his abstemious* and parsimonious* way of living, his money had been reduced to a mere pittance. A perverse* impulse brought him to the section where young people in strange clothing and with uncouth* manners made him recoil* in unmitigated* disgust. He had never been au courant with the “hippies” and “punks.” He was always fastidious about proper dress and behavior. A moment later he saw her! Evelyn! She was sitting at a table in a coffee shop, surrounded by a coterie* of the most noisome individuals he had ever seen. Evelyn was not incongruous,* for she herself was unkempt. So this was her new habitat*! At that instant Robert knew as an incontrovertible* fact that he had lost her. With a grimace,* he turned and walked, a doleful* and melancholy figure, toward the bus depot and home.

Sample Sentences: Use the new words in these sentences.

Styles are such transient* things that what is _____ today, is archaic* tomorrow.

A	pittance
B	fastidious
C	noisome
D	au courant
E	unkempt

Question 2

The tip he had been offered was a mere _____ , and the taxi driver threw it on the ground in disdain.*

A	pittance
B	fastidious
C	noisome
D	au courant
E	unkempt

Question 3

Children think mothers are asinine* to get upset about _____ rooms.

A	pittance
B	fastidious
C	noisome
D	au courant
E	unkempt

Question 4

It was inevitable* that they discover the hidden body by its _____ aroma.

A	pittance
B	fastidious
C	noisome
D	au courant
E	unkempt

Question 5

He was so _____ about table manners that he lost his equanimity* when his son reached for the bread.

A	pittance
B	fastidious
C	noisome
D	au courant
E	unkempt

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their definitions.

pittance

A	untidy, neglected
B	foul, unwholesome
C	small amount
D	particular, choosy
E	up-to-date

Question 7

au courant

A	untidy, neglected
B	foul, unwholesome
C	small amount
D	particular, choosy
E	up-to-date

Question 8

fastidious

A	untidy, neglected
B	foul, unwholesome
C	small amount
D	particular, choosy
E	up-to-date

Question 9

noisome

A	untidy, neglected
B	foul, unwholesome
C	small amount
D	particular, choosy
E	up-to-date

Question 10

unkempt

A	untidy, neglected
B	foul, unwholesome
C	small amount
D	particular, choosy
E	up-to-date

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NEW WORDS

pittance [pit´ ns]

“To be paid a mere pittance and yet to be suspected of theft; never in her life had she been subjected to such an outrage.” Anton Chekhov, “An Upheaval”