Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 38 - Day 4
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NEW WORDS
- retort [ri tôrt´]
“There is no need to retort to an employee who has written a critique of your original warning letter.” NYC Board of Education’s Food Service Division, Guide for Managers
- reticent [ret´ ə sənt]
“He was as inquisitive about the country as he was reticent about his business there.” Frances Gilchrist Woods, “Turkey Red”
- tacit [tas´ it]
“There is a tacit agreement in a civil conversation that each avoid making of it a monologue.” Rebecca West, “There Is No Conversation”
- chicanery [shi kā´ nə r ē]
“As a profession, lawyers have become associated with chicanery and confusion.” People, 2/4/99
- docile [dos´ əl]
“How long can they remain docile, living under such terrible oppression?” Business Week, 6/16/98
TODAY’S IDIOM
to maintain the status quo—to keep things as they are
You hit the nail on the head* when you said we ought to maintain the status quo and not change horses in midstream.*
