Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 17 - Day 3
NEW WORDS
- murky [mer kē]
“Mud dumping from the bottom of Long Island has created a murky picture.” “Fishermen’s Woes,” Newsday, 6/22/99
- component [kəm pō´ nənt]
“The F.B.I. did, in fact, develop a racial component, the profile of serial killers as predominantly white, male loners.” Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Color of Suspicion,” New York Times, 6/20/99
- hoax [hōks]
“Frank Spencer, an anthropologist who rummaged through the bones of controversy to theorize about the identity of the mastermind behind the Piltdown Man hoax of 1912, died on Sunday.” Obituary notice, New York Times, 6/12/99
- labyrinth [lab´ ə rinth]
“He himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist.” Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
- evaluate [i val´ yü āt]
“Mr. Gooding hopes to find the answer if his mentor gives him the chance to evaluate the prisoner.” Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times, 6/4/99
TODAY’S IDIOM
to turn the tables—to turn a situation to one’s own advantage
The wrestler thought that he could pin me to the mat, but I quickly turned the tables on him.
