Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 38 – Day 1


Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 38 - Day 1

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NEW WORDS

  • glib [glib] 

“It is not glib to maintain that truth can never be contained in one creed.” Mary Augusta Ward, Robert Elsmere

  • homogeneous [hō mə jē´ ne əs] 

“Archaeologists have unearthed evidence showing that the people of ancient Egypt were far from a homogeneous civilization.” Brian Fagan, Time Detective

  • malleable [mal´ ē ə bəl] 

“Is the mayor able to change from an apparently rigid personality to one more malleable to differences?” Alec Kuczynski, “The Mayor’s Makeover,” New York Times Magazine, 8/1/99

  • legerdemain [lej ər də mān´] 

“Federal investigators pursuing money-laundering schemes are concerned with alleged acts of legerdemain by Russian banks.” Tim L. O’Brien, “Bank in Laundering Inquiry,” New York Times, 8/20/99

  • trend [trend] 

“We should make every effort to reverse the trend in popular music towards violent lyrics.” Portland Oregonian, 8/12/99

TODAY’S IDIOM

by hook or by crook—any way at all, at any cost

He had bought the white elephant* without rhyme or reason*; now he had to get rid of it by hook or by crook.

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