Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 22

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 22 - Day 4

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Question 1

DANGER SIGNALS

A potential* female alcoholic should be cognizant* of certain danger signals:

a. Using alcohol in an attempt to palliate her problems.
b. Deluding herself about the extent of her drinking habits.
c. Drinking at regular time periods, both day and night.
d. Reliance upon alcohol as a prelude to a major social obligation.
e. Making unrealistic promises about terminating* her drinking.
f. Using alcohol as a medication for real or chimerical illnesses.

If in evaluating* her drinking, a woman acknowledged that several of the danger signals applied to her, she should see a physician.

Sample Sentences: Use the new words in the following sentences.

Monte refused to _____ the extrinsic* pressures that were causing him to do poorly in his sophomore year.

A	chimerical
B	acknowledge
C	prelude
D	delude
E	palliate

Question 2

We must not allow fulsome* praise to _____ us about our actual abilities.

A	chimerical
B	acknowledge
C	prelude
D	delude
E	palliate

Question 3

The drugs could only _____ the symptoms, not provide the cure.

A	chimerical
B	acknowledge
C	prelude
D	delude
E	palliate

Question 4

As a _____ to his performance, the bullfighter vowed to do penance* for his sins.

A	chimerical
B	acknowledge
C	prelude
D	delude
E	palliate

Question 5

The scheme sounded _____, but we were indoctrinated* to believe that it could work.

A	chimerical
B	acknowledge
C	prelude
D	delude
E	palliate

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their meanings.

palliate

A	visionary, imaginary, fantastic
B	alleviate, relieve without curing
C	introduction
D	to fool
E	admit

Question 7

delude

A	visionary, imaginary, fantastic
B	alleviate, relieve without curing
C	introduction
D	to fool
E	admit

Question 8

prelude

A	visionary, imaginary, fantastic
B	alleviate, relieve without curing
C	introduction
D	to fool
E	admit

Question 9

chimerical

A	visionary, imaginary, fantastic
B	alleviate, relieve without curing
C	introduction
D	to fool
E	admit

Question 10

acknowledge

A	visionary, imaginary, fantastic
B	alleviate, relieve without curing
C	introduction
D	to fool
E	admit

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NEW WORDS

palliate [pal´ ē āt]

“Reducing the testosterone would palliate the cancer, the oncologist believed, but it wouldn’t be a cure.” Dr. Mervyn Elliot, “Medicine in the News”

delude [di lüd´]

“Mrs. Barrows had deluded herself that you visited her last evening and behaved in an unseemly manner.” James Thurber, “The Catbird Seat”

prelude [prel´ yüd]

“Bounderby’s prelude to his main point was very well received by Mrs. Sparsit who said, ‘Very sagacious indeed, sir.’” Charles Dickens, Hard Times

chimerical [kə mer´ ə kəl]

“His utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practicable improvement on what already exists.” George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty

acknowledge [ak nol´ ij]

“They used the Swiss routes and camp sites—which they later acknowledged— and by the end of April were established in full strength at their fifth camp.” James Ramsey Ullman, “Victory on Everest”

TODAY’S IDIOM

the Draconian Code—a very severe set of rules (Draco, an Athenian lawmaker of the 7th century B.C., prescribed the death penalty for almost every violation.)