Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 42

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 42 - Day 1

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Question 1

YOU CAN’T HELP BUT WATCH

The consumer is in a quandary about making a felicitous* selection among the array* of products. The advertisers must influence the malleable* consumer, and often they do it in the most callous ways. Television offers many tangible* advantages for reaching the consumer. As a result, the consumer is inundated* by commercials. The advertiser knows that a television commercial is the most expedient way to reach large numbers of people. The cost for each commercial film is prodigious,* but because the audience is so large, the cost per viewer is negligible. Each commercial is prepared in the most meticulous* way in order to catch the attention of even the most blasé viewer and hold it until the message is through.

The reintroduced “new word” should have stood out immediately. Did it? It’s callous, of course.

Sample Sentences: Use the new words in these sentences.

It was fortuitous* that the accident occurred when there were _____ numbers of children in the buses.

A	quandary
B	callous
C	negligible
D	blasé
E	expedient

Question 2

He was in a _____ about which selection from his extensive repertoire* it would be feasible* to perform for the children.

A	quandary
B	callous
C	negligible
D	blasé
E	expedient

Question 3

Because she had committed only a venial* offense, he thought it _____ to abjure* a severe punishment.

A	quandary
B	callous
C	negligible
D	blasé
E	expedient

Question 4

Who can be _____ about the presence of many indigent* families in proximity* to affluence?*

A	quandary
B	callous
C	negligible
D	blasé
E	expedient

Question 5

People have become so _____ about the once thrilling, now mundane* flights into space.

A	quandary
B	callous
C	negligible
D	blasé
E	expedient

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their definitions.

quandary

A	indifferent, not responsive to excitement
B	hardened, unfeeling
C	doubt, dilemma
D	advisable, fit
E	trifling, inconsiderable

Question 7

callous

A	indifferent, not responsive to excitement
B	hardened, unfeeling
C	doubt, dilemma
D	advisable, fit
E	trifling, inconsiderable

Question 8

expedient (adj.)

A	indifferent, not responsive to excitement
B	hardened, unfeeling
C	doubt, dilemma
D	advisable, fit
E	trifling, inconsiderable

Question 9

negligible

A	indifferent, not responsive to excitement
B	hardened, unfeeling
C	doubt, dilemma
D	advisable, fit
E	trifling, inconsiderable

Question 10

blasé

A	indifferent, not responsive to excitement
B	hardened, unfeeling
C	doubt, dilemma
D	advisable, fit
E	trifling, inconsiderable

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NEW WORDS

quandary [kwon´ dər ē]

“New Year’s Eve presented a quandary for people in China, a country where the observance of non-political Western celebrations is a relatively recent phenomenon.” Elizabeth Rosenthal, “Party? What Party?,” New York Times, 1/1/00