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Barron’s 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 9 – Day 2


Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 9 - Day 2

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NEW WORDS

  • blatant [blāt´ nt] 

“It’s a classic blatant pyramid scheme.” Robert Hanley, “Gifting Club,” New York Times, 6/23/99

  • entourage [än´ tü räzh] 

“Sinatra was the greatest but I was never a part of his entourage, his rat pack.” Comedian Buddy Hackett to New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York Daily News, 7/14/99

  • virulent [vir´ yə lent] 

“Another part of my hope was for communities of people of colour that, for the most part, have been virulently homophobic.” Mark Haslam, “When Bigotry Kills,” Globe and Mail, Toronto, 3/5/99

  • venom [ven´ əm] 

“The point envenom’d too! Then, venom, do thy work.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • spew [spyü] 

“It was obvious as the miles of electronic tape began to spew out the new patterns of American life that the census was to be of historic dimension.” Theodore H. White, The Making of the President

TODAY’S IDIOM

to keep a stiff upper lip—to be courageous in the face of trouble

It was admirable to see how the British managed to keep a stiff upper lip in spite of the German bombing.

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