Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 8

Barron's 1100 Words You Need to Know (MCQ Test + PDF) Week 8 - Day 3

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Question 1

STYMIED* BY PERSONAL SICKNESS

After an extensive lecture tour in 1956, Dr. Dooley returned to Laos to set up a mobile medical unit. Because the Geneva Agreement barred the entrance of military personnel to the country, he resigned from the Navy and went to work as a civilian. That story is told in The Edge of Tomorrow. Next year, despite a growing illness, the ubiquitous Dooley turned up in the remote village of Muong Sing, attempting to thwart his traditional enemies—disease, dirt, ignorance, starvation—and hoping to quell* the spread of communism. But his trained medical eye soon told him that the pain in his chest and back was a harbinger of a malignant cancer.

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

Sprinting all over the court, the _____ referee called one foul after another.

A	malignant
B	ubiquitous
C	thwart
D	remote
E	harbinger

Question 2

Ben’s reprehensible* table manners led his fraternity brothers to seat him in a _____ corner of the dining room.

A	malignant
B	ubiquitous
C	thwart
D	remote
E	harbinger

Question 3

The excellent soup was a _____ of the delicious meal to follow.

A	malignant
B	ubiquitous
C	thwart
D	remote
E	harbinger

Question 4

In an attempt to _____ the voracious* ants, he surrounded his house with a moat of burning oil.

A	malignant
B	ubiquitous
C	thwart
D	remote
E	harbinger

Question 5

The surgeon finally located the _____ tumor that had afflicted* his patient for many months.

A	malignant
B	ubiquitous
C	thwart
D	remote
E	harbinger

Question 6

Definitions: Match the new words with their meanings.

ubiquitous

A	distant, hidden away
B	being everywhere at the same time
C	likely to cause death
D	to hinder, defeat
E	a forerunner, advance notice

Question 7

remote

A	distant, hidden away
B	being everywhere at the same time
C	likely to cause death
D	to hinder, defeat
E	a forerunner, advance notice

Question 8

thwart

A	distant, hidden away
B	being everywhere at the same time
C	likely to cause death
D	to hinder, defeat
E	a forerunner, advance notice

Question 9

harbinger

Question 10

malignant

A	distant, hidden away
B	being everywhere at the same time
C	likely to cause death
D	to hinder, defeat
E	a forerunner, advance notice

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NEW WORDS

ubiquitous [yü bik´ wə təs]

“Che Guevera has become ubiquitous; his figure stares out at us from coffee mugs and posters, pops up in rock songs and operas.” Ariel Dorfman, “Che,” TIME, 6/14/99

remote [ri mōt´]

“The pull of the remote stars is so slight as to be obliterated in the vaster moments by which the ocean yields to the moon and sun.” Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

thwart [thwôrt]

“The man who made up the name for flies must have been thwarted in a life-long desire to have children, and at last found that outlet for his suppressed baby-talk.” Robert Benchley, “The Lure of the Road”