Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 7 - Day 1
NEW WORDS
- implacable [im plā´ ke bəl]
“It seemed folly for this young man to hope to create a self-supporting farm in such an implacable environment.” Leland Stowe, Crusoe of Lonesome Lake
- paroxysm [par´ ək siz əm]
“The coughing did not even come out in paroxysms, but was just a feeble, dreadful welling up of the juices of organic dissolution.” Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
- reprehensible [rep´ ri hen´ sə bəl]
“She thought that the prisoners, no matter how morally reprehensible their crimes, still should have the benefit of pretrial representation.” Jimmy Breslin’s syndicated column, Newsday, 6/15/99
- jurisdiction [jür´ is dik´ shən]
“Lee’s jurisdiction included the monitoring of boxing within New Jersey.” Timothy Smith, “A Sport’s Credibility,” New York Times, 6/20/99
- skirmish [sker´ mish]
“They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
TODAY’S IDIOM
cause célèbre—a famous law case or controversy
It was a minor dispute, but the ambitious lawyer sought to turn it into a cause célèbre.
