Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 18 - Day 2
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NEW WORDS
- veneer [və nir´]
“Since then, she has frequently tried to crack the veneer of role, surface, and pose.” Mark Stevens, “Spice Girls,” New York, 6/21/99
- myriad [mir´ ē əd]
“Genius is not born with sight, but blind: it is influenced by a myriad of stimulating exterior circumstances.” Mark Twain, “Saint Joan of Arc”
- urbane [er bān´]
“Their prose is less ornate, their urbane satire more muted.” Book review, New York Times
- crave [krāv]
“It’s the perfect way for the Clintons to hang on to the power, glamour and excitement they both crave.” Bob Herbert, “It Could Happen,” New York Times, 6/6/99
- irrelevant [i rel´ ə vənt]
“What has existed in the past seems to him not only not authoritative, but irrelevant, inferior, and outworn.” George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States
TODAY’S IDIOM
to be at large—not confined or in jail
Since the dangerous criminal was at large, all the townspeople began to buy dogs for protection.
