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