Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 37

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 37 - Day 4

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Question 1

AMATEUR PSYCHOLOGISTS

The ideas of Freudian psychology have become part of our everyday life. Our language is replete with clichés that have their origin in Freud’s writings. There is a surfeit of amateur psychologists who, with celerity, analyze an individual’s problems from the slightest evidence. Despite their dubious education and training in this field, they discuss symptoms and cures in a most erudite fashion. Should a person express a fear of heights, this phobia is examined; events from childhood are considered germane to the problem. Is it possible he or she was dropped as an infant? Perhaps something in a dream is pertinent to explain the feelings of vertigo that accompany height. For some reason, non-trained people find the Freudian approach to the workings of the human mind most conducive to their practicing as amateur psychologists.

Sample Sentences: Use the new words in these sentences.

She could not countenance the sight of a lethal weapon; it was tantamount to a _____ with her.

A	vertigo
B	germane
C	erudite
D	phobia
E	conducive

Question 1 Explanation:

A phobia is a persistent, often irrational fear or strong dislike. She cannot bear (countenance) the sight of a weapon, so her reaction amounts to a phobia. In the passage, a fear of heights is called a phobia. Not vertigo, which is the dizziness itself, not a fear of something.

Question 2

The _____ man was more than merely bilingual; he spoke five languages.

A	vertigo
B	germane
C	erudite
D	phobia
E	conducive

Question 2 Explanation:

Erudite means very scholarly, having deep knowledge from study. Speaking five languages shows great learning, so the man is erudite. The passage says amateurs talk 'in a most erudite fashion', meaning they sound learned.

Question 3

I would never have the temerity to walk across the steel girders high up on a new building; an onset of _____ would surely follow.

A	vertigo
B	germane
C	erudite
D	phobia
E	conducive

Question 3 Explanation:

Vertigo is a feeling of dizziness, especially when high up. Walking on steel beams high above the ground could bring on an onset of vertigo. Not phobia: a phobia is the fear, while vertigo is the dizzy feeling that 'accompanies height', as the passage says.

Question 4

The bedlam in the study hall was not _____ to good work habits.

A	vertigo
B	germane
C	erudite
D	phobia
E	conducive

Question 4 Explanation:

Conducive to means helping or leading to something. Noise and chaos (bedlam) do not help people study, so it was not conducive to good work habits. Note the fixed pattern conducive to, as in the passage: 'most conducive to their practicing'.

Question 5

Epithets are not _____ when motivating a child to a task.

A	vertigo
B	germane
C	erudite
D	phobia
E	conducive

Question 5 Explanation:

Germane means relevant or appropriate to the matter at hand. Insulting names (epithets) are not appropriate or relevant when you want to motivate a child. Not conducive, which would need to after it (conducive to success); here no object follows.

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their definitions.

erudite

A	very scholarly
B	dizziness
C	persistent fear, strong dislike
D	leading, helpful
E	appropriate, in close relationship to

Question 6 Explanation:

Erudite means very scholarly, showing great learning: an erudite professor.

Question 7

phobia

A	very scholarly
B	dizziness
C	persistent fear, strong dislike
D	leading, helpful
E	appropriate, in close relationship to

Question 7 Explanation:

A phobia is a persistent fear or strong dislike of something: a phobia of spiders.

Question 8

germane

A	very scholarly
B	dizziness
C	persistent fear, strong dislike
D	leading, helpful
E	appropriate, in close relationship to

Question 8 Explanation:

Germane means appropriate or closely related to the subject: Childhood events are germane to the problem.

Question 9

vertigo

A	very scholarly
B	dizziness
C	persistent fear, strong dislike
D	leading, helpful
E	appropriate, in close relationship to

Question 9 Explanation:

Vertigo means dizziness, a feeling that everything is spinning, often felt at heights.

Question 10

conducive

A	very scholarly
B	dizziness
C	persistent fear, strong dislike
D	leading, helpful
E	appropriate, in close relationship to

Question 10 Explanation:

Conducive means leading to or helpful for something, used with to: A quiet room is conducive to study.

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erudite [er´ ů dīt]

“The erudite historian, Prof. Garrett Clark, will speak on ‘Evaluating Democracy’ at our April meeting.” Lancaster Library Bulletin, Spring 2000