1100 WORDS You Need to Know Week11 Day 5 Review
1 coerce 2 comprehensive 3 conjecture 4 corroborate 5 domicile
6 elapse 7 fruitless 8 garbled 9 inundate 10 lax
11 lurid 12 meticulous 13 obviate 14 phlegmatic 15 poignant
16 quip 17 rash 18 sanguine 19 sporadic 20 zealous
21 to feather one's nest
22 fair-weather friends
23 to sow one's wild oats
24 windfall
VOCABULARY CARTOONS
・dauntless…fearless, unintimidated (daun, ME : from Old French danter, from
Latin domitare, frequentative of domare 'to tame' + -less)
・dearth…scarcity; lack (dear, OE deore 'precious, valuable,; costly, expensive,
beloved, etc, + -th)
・debacle…a sudden calamitous downfall; collapse or failure (early 19th cent. :
from French débâcler 'unleash' , from de- 'un-' + bâcler 'to bar'
<from Latin baculum 'staff'>)
(ODE / Etymonline)
