Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 40 - Day 1
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NEW WORDS
- rhetoric [ret´ ər ik]
“Nothing good can come out of the rhetoric of hatred that will be heard at the rally.” New York Congressman Charles Rangel, ABC TV News, 9/2/99
- clique [klēk]
“The tragic event points out the danger of forming cliques in school that shut out many.” Newsday, 5/15/99
- extol [ek stōl´]
“They extol the largely nonexistent virtues of bygone eras.” Artemus Abruzzi, Commonsense
- mentor [men´ tər]
“To break into the political life of South Africa, one needed a highly placed mentor.” Nadine Gordimer, Face to Face
- facile [fas´ əl]
“We are usually more facile with words we read than with words we use to write or speak.” Charlton Laird, The Miracle of Language
TODAY’S IDIOM
to live in a fool’s paradise—to be happy without a real basis
He lived in a fool’s paradise while he sowed wild oats*, but he soon had to pay the piper.*
