1100 Words You Need to Know has been one of the top-rated and best-selling vocabulary books in the market for over 4 decades published by Barron’s Educational Series and written by Murray Bromberg and Melvin Gordon. This advanced vocabulary book helps you to learn advanced academic words and idioms in context with answer keys by the end of the book. Many students and SAT / ACT candidates have been satisfied with this book and its various sections, especially analogy exercises in real context, such as novels, magazines, TV shows, etc.
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Beeline 1100 Words You Need Beeline 1100 Words You Need in a direct path or line from one place to another, a shortcut ‘She made a beeline for him’: Hollywood hunting as Mel Gibson sighted in Carleton Place: “She made a beeline for him and I was left in the wings,” Beath joked. “ ……
Interloper 1100 Words You Need Interloper 1100 Words You Need /ˈɪn.təˌləʊ.pəʳ/ (noun) an intruding person who becomes involved in an activity which does not concern them, an intruder into a gathering or social event, gatecrasher, impostor, meddler, trespasser: I also agree that the doctor’s conduct is to be differentiated from that of, for example, an…
Cursory 1100 Words You Need Cursory 1100 Words You Need /ˈkɜː.sər.i/ (adj) done in a quick and superficial way, passing, brief, hasty, hurried, perfunctory, rapid, desultory, fleeting: From the 1970s onwards, photographs as documentary evidence soon became established as a social research technique more widely across the social sciences. However, popularity over time has both…
Habitat 1100 Words You Need Habitat 1100 Words You Need /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ (noun) the natural home or environment for special animals or plants species to grow well, territory, locale, surroundings, haunt, habitation: The term natural habitat refers to an environment occurring naturally in forests, wetlands, deserts, grasslands and the Arctic tundra, which supports a particular species…
Indigenous 1100 Words You Need Indigenous 1100 Words You Need /ɪnˈdɪdʒ.ɪ.nəs/ (adj) naturally living or existing in a particular place or habitat and not coming from outside, native, homegrown, original, ethnic, local: ‘Native’ or ‘indigenous’ refers to a species or race that occurs naturally in an area (for this review, the UK), i.e. whose dispersal…
Hear Something on the Grapevine Hear Something on the Grapevine to hear something indirectly because the information is spread from one person to another, path along with information spreads, rumor mill, bush telegraph, gossip: I heard it on the grapevine that the manager and his secretary had a love affair after office hours. The rumor…
Controversial 1100 Words You Need Controversial 1100 Words You Need /ˌkɒn.trəˈvɜː.ʃəl/ (adj) Controversial definition arousing disagreement or discussion, causing argument, argumentative, contentious, debatable, provocative, notorious, scandalous, hot, heated: Example Controversial essays have either be controversial speeches or controversial essays. The controversial topics are quite usually strong opinions on a certain topic. Whenever you choose to…
Epithet 1100 Words You Need Epithet 1100 Words You Need /ˈep.ɪ.θet/ (noun) descriptive word or label added to someone’s name to insult or praise them, adjective, appellation, nickname, description, label, handle: A girl’s name is Marilynn, but her parents call her Lynn. Her sister calls her Mary. And her friends call her Merry-go-round when she’s…
Asperity 1100 Words You Need Asperity 1100 Words You Need /əˈsper.ɪ.ti/ (noun) the state of being severe and harsh in the way you speak or behave, harshness and severity in manner and tone, toughness, sharpness, brusqueness, sternness, astringency, stringency: In his Preface he says: ‘If the asperity of the notes and criticisms of my adversaries…
Nomadic 1100 Words You Need Nomadic 1100 Words You Need /nəʊˈmæd.ɪk/ not living in one place and traveling all the time, itinerant, traveling, roaming, wandering, roving, drifting: It’s hard to put my childhood into a word. I guess I could call it “nomadic”- constantly moving around to a different area where the better opportunities were…